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title: Yo, what's Peter's rule for his lads then? — Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the chi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what's Peter's rule for his lads then? Test 8 · ★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Flight, part 8: the children near the Never…

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Yo, what's Peter's rule for his lads then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rule

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t8:1
# text = Yo, what's Peter's rule for his lads then?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Peter's rule |  |  |  | for Peter's lads | 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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never follow the pirates home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t8:o1:1
# text = never follow the pirates home
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pirates home |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
never fight with Hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t8:o2:1
# text = never fight with Hook
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fight** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Hook | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hook=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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stay close to Peter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t8:o3:1
# text = stay close to Peter
1	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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leave Hook to him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:317-pg16-part8:t8:o4:1
# text = leave Hook to him
1	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|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 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | Hook | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hook=Theme to he=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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