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title: Ngl, what did John do when he got the flying thing? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the chil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did John do when he got the flying thing? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 316 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly and set off for Neverland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 14 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly an…

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Ngl, what did John do when he got the flying thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** do, get, fly · **To what, where:** flying thing

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 316 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 7: the children learn to fly and set off for Neverland» 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/316-pg16-part7/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:316-pg16-part7:t14:1
# text = Ngl, what did John do when he got the flying thing?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | John |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | past | John | the flying thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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went on about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:316-pg16-part7:t14:o1:1
# text = went on about it
1	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about it | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about it=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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showed off to all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:316-pg16-part7:t14:o2:1
# text = showed off to all
1	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | past |  |  | all |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to all=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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wanted more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:316-pg16-part7:t14:o3:1
# text = wanted more
1	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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told everyone twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:316-pg16-part7:t14:o4:1
# text = told everyone twice
1	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | everyone |  |  | twice *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |

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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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