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title: What's gripping Starkey's shoulder, proper? — Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's gripping Starkey's shoulder, proper? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 319 «Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pirates hunt for the lost boys' hidden home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 11 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pira…

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What's gripping Starkey's shoulder, proper?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 319 «Peter Pan, The Home Under the Ground, part 10: Hook's pirates hunt for the lost boys' hidden home» 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/319-pg16-part10/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:319-pg16-part10:t11:1
# text = What's gripping Starkey's shoulder, proper?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grip** | present · progressive |  | Starkey's shoulder |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Experiencer |

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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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a cold hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:319-pg16-part10:t11:o1:1
# text = a cold hand
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the iron hook of Captain Hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:319-pg16-part10:t11:o2:1
# text = the iron hook of Captain Hook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a gleaming iron hook from the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:319-pg16-part10:t11:o3:1
# text = a gleaming iron hook from the dark
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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an iron claw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:319-pg16-part10:t11:o4:1
# text = an iron claw
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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