Test 2 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

Was Peter well peak for going in the garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peak · What happens: be, go · To what, where: Peter, garden

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 273 «Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sneaks into Mr. McGregor's garden and only just escapes» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Peter	cop
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 peak	nmod:poss
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 peak	advmod
4	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 peak	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 peak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter					tree rules
2	go	gerund	Peter's peak not said here			the garden			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he went straight to the garden where he was told not to go

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 garden	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 told	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 garden	acl:relcl
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 go	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	he		the garden	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he ignored what his mum said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ignored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ignored	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	nsubj
4	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignored	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	he						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	his mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he went where he was told not to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 told	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 told	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	9 not	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he crept into the garden even though his mum had warned him not to

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	obl
8	even	even	ADV	_	13 warned	advmod
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 warned	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warned	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 warned	aux
13	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 crept	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warned	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 warned	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	15 not	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	he			the garden			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination
2	not warn speech: warn	past · perfect	his mum		him = he				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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