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title: Proper, what was the pirates' little boat called? — Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper, what was the pirates' little boat called? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 324 «Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture Tiger Lily and leave her on the rock, but Peter tricks them» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

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Proper, what was the pirates' little boat called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** little boat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 324 «Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture Tiger Lily and leave her on the rock, but Peter tricks them» 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/324-pg16-part15/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t3:1
# text = Proper, what was the pirates' little boat called?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the pirates's little boat |  |  |  | properly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the pirates's little boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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The dinghy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t3:o1:1
# text = The dinghy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dinghy	dinghy	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 rowboat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t3:o2:1
# text = The rowboat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rowboat	rowboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Canoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t3:o3:1
# text = Canoe
1	Canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The skiff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t3:o4:1
# text = The skiff
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skiff	skiff	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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