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title: Mad, how did they kip up there then? — Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the chi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, how did they kip up there then? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 317 «Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Neverland, and fear falls as night comes» 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 was ri
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# Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Never…

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Mad, how did they kip up there then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** kip up

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 317 «Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Neverland, and fear falls as night comes» 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/317-pg16-part8/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t3:1
# text = Mad, how did they kip up there then?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kip	kip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kip up** | past · do-support | they |  |  | there | then |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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lying flat on a strong wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t3:o1:1
# text = lying flat on a strong wind
1	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | a strong wind |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wind=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lying flat on a strong wind and dreaming of home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t3:o2:1
# text = lying flat on a strong wind and dreaming of home
1	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | a strong wind |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wind=Location |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of home | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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holding onto the air currents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t3:o3:1
# text = holding onto the air currents
1	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  |  |  | the air currents |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
on the clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t3:o4:1
# text = on the clouds
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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