--- title: What did the captain liken the voice to when asked to identify himse… — Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the captain liken the voice to when asked to identify himself? Exam question 2 of lesson 325 «Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to his boat, and Peter tricks the pirates with a codfish game» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/325-pg16-part16/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/325-pg16-part16/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi… What did the captain liken the voice to when asked to identify himself? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** liken, ask, identify · **To what, where:** voice, captain This is exam question 2 of lesson 325 «Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to his boat, and Peter tricks the pirates with a codfish game» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/325-pg16-part16/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e2:1 # text = What did the captain liken the voice to when asked to identify himself? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 liken liken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 identify identify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **liken** | past · do-support | the captain | the voice | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | the captain *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **identify** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the captain *not said here* | captain | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | 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} a cod and a crab ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e2:o1:1 # text = a cod and a crab 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cod cod NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a huge talking cod fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e2:o2:1 # text = a huge talking cod fish 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 talking talking NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cod cod NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a dolphin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e2:o3:1 # text = a dolphin 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} a codfish ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e2:o4:1 # text = a codfish 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 codfish codfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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