Test 7 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

Did the cat get the goldfish, or was she well dozy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: get, be · To what, where: goldfish

This is test 7 · ★ 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 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goldfish	det
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dozy	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 dozy	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dozy	cop
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dozy	nsubj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 dozy	advmod
12	dozy	dozy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the cat	the goldfish					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goldfish=Stimulus
2	is	past	cat					dozy, well property	tree rules

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

She just sat there staring, not moving a whisker at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moving	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 moving	advmod
8	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 staring	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 whisker	det
10	whisker	whisker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moving	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	She		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund	She not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not move	gerund	She not said here	a whisker	all	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent whisker=Theme

Option 2

She stalked the gold-fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stalked	nsubj
2	stalked	stalk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fish	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 gold	punct
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stalked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stalk	past	She	the gold fish					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She just sat there staring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	She			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund	She not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She just sat there staring at the goldfish for ages and ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 goldfish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goldfish	det
8	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 staring	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ages	cc
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ages	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	She			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund	She not said here				for ages and ages	at the goldfish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at goldfish=Theme

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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