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title: Did Flopsy's lot get proper treats for tea? — Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabb… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Flopsy's lot get proper treats for tea? Test 9 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 9 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

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Did Flopsy's lot get proper treats for tea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lot · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** proper treats

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t9:1
# text = Did Flopsy's lot get proper treats for tea?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Flopsy	Flopsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | Flopsy's lot | proper treats |  |  |  | for tea | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent treat=Theme for tea=Source |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, bread, milk and blackberries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t9:o1:1
# text = Yeah, bread, milk and blackberries
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, lettuce, beans and carrots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t9:o2:1
# text = Yeah, lettuce, beans and carrots
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, bread, milk and blackberries and a big bowl of soup too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t9:o3:1
# text = Yeah, bread, milk and blackberries and a big bowl of soup too
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, bread, milk and blackberries picked from the lane today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:273-pg14838-part1:t9:o4:1
# text = Yeah, bread, milk and blackberries picked from the lane today
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | participle |  | blackberries *not said here* |  |  |  | from the lane | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from lane=Patient |

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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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