Test 5 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

Was Peter mint at hiding in the can?

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

This is test 5 · ★ 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	3 mint	compound
3	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 hiding	mark
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mint	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 can	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 can	det
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hiding	aux
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter					tree rules
2	hide	can	Peter mint not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, the water was rank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 rank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rank	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rank	cop
6	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the water	rank					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, the tin was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tin	det
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tin					cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he hid well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he					well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, the can was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	aux
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can						cold property	tree rules

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