Test 6 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

Did Mr. McGregor catch him in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: McGregor · What happens: catch · To what, where: Mr., end

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 McGregor	nmod:desc
3	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · do-support	McGregor Mr.	Mr.			in the end		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he slipped under the gate and ran straight home to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slipped	conj
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 home	advmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	he			the gate			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	run	past	he not said here			bed		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, he was caught by the rake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 rake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rake	det
8	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		he				by the rake	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he slipped under the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	he			the gate			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nah, he slipped under the gate while the gardener turned away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 turned	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gardener	det
10	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slipped	advcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	he			the gate			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	turn away	past	the gardener					away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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