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title: Dead, who said "Ay, ay" and cut the cords? — Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead, who said "Ay, ay" and cut the cords? Test 6 · ★ 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 of eac
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# Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaids' Lagoon, part 15: pirates capture…

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Dead, who said "Ay, ay" and cut the cords?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** say, cut · **To what, where:** cords · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t6:1
# text = Dead, who said "Ay, ay" and cut the cords?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ay	ay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut** | past |  | the cords |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cord=Product |

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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 {#o1}

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Hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t6:o1:1
# text = Hook
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Smee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t6:o2:1
# text = Smee
1	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	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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Starkey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t6:o3:1
# text = Starkey
1	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	NNP	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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Ned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:324-pg16-part15:t6:o4:1
# text = Ned
1	Ned	Ned	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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