Test 3 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…
Bare sus, who chased Peter with a rake?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare sus · What happens: chase · To what, where: Peter
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sus | amod |
| 2 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chased | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 chased | nsubj |
| 5 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rake | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rake | det |
| 9 | rake | rake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chased | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | Bare sus | Peter | with a rake | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Mr. McGregor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 2 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Mr. McGregor, who shouted at the rabbits all day long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 2 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouted | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 shouted | nsubj |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 rabbits | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rabbits | det |
| 8 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shouted | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouted | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 shouted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | McGregor Mr. | day | at the rabbits; long property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Mr. McGregor, the gardener, with his long rake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 2 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gardener | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardener | det |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 McGregor | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rake | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rake | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rake | nmod:poss |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rake | amod |
| 10 | rake | rake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 McGregor | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Mrs. Rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rabbit | compound |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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