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title: Which of the following items did Peter lose among the potatoes? — Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabb… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following items did Peter lose among the potatoes? Exam question 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 3 · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

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Which of the following items did Peter lose among the potatoes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** follow, lose

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This is exam question 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, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/273-pg14838-part1/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:e3:1
# text = Which of the following items did Peter lose among the potatoes?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past · do-support | Peter |  |  |  |  | of the following items; among the potatoes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent which=Theme of item=Initial\_Location |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:e3:o1:1
# text = Cap
1	Cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A jacket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:e3:o2:1
# text = A jacket
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:e3:o3:1
# text = Hat
1	Hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:e3:o4:1
# text = A shoe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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