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title: Which boy was first to draw blood in the struggle, according to the… — Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which boy was first to draw blood in the struggle, according to the passage? Exam question 4 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 p
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# Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

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Which boy was first to draw blood in the struggle, according to the passage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** be, accord · **To what, where:** struggle

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e4:1
# text = Which boy was first to draw blood in the struggle, according to the passage?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which boy |  |  | the struggle and the passage |  | draw, first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 {#o1}

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Nibs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e4:o1:1
# text = Nibs
1	Nibs	nib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tootles and Nibs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e4:o2:1
# text = Tootles and Nibs
1	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Nibs	nib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Michael and John

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e4:o3:1
# text = Michael and John
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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John

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:e4:o4:1
# text = John
1	John	John	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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**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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