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title: Was Peter's jacket new or nah? — Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabb… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was Peter's jacket new or nah? Test 10 · ★ 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 question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

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Was Peter's jacket new or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/273-pg14838-part1/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t10:1
# text = Was Peter's jacket new or nah?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yeah, it was blue with shiny brass buttons and a hood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t10:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it was blue with shiny brass buttons and a hood
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with shiny brass buttons and a hood; blue *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, blue with brass buttons, and he had only just got it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, blue with brass buttons, and he had only just got it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | he *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, green with metal zips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t10:o3:1
# text = Yeah, green with metal zips
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	zips	zip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, blue with brass buttons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t10:o4:1
# text = Yeah, blue with brass buttons
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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