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title: Peak, what did Smee want to do with the mum? — Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Peak, what did Smee want to do with the mum? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

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Peak, what did Smee want to do with the mum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Smee, Peak · **What happens:** want, do · **To what, where:** Peak

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t8:1
# text = Peak, what did Smee want to do with the mum?
1	Peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	appos	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | Smee | Peak |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Peak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the mum | vn act-114-1 «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 {#o1}

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marry the boys' mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t8:o1:1
# text = marry the boys' mum
1	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boys's mum |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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kidnap the boys' mum to cook for them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t8:o2:1
# text = kidnap the boys' mum to cook for them
1	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kidnap** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boys's mum |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for boys *= boy* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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kidnap the boys' mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t8:o3:1
# text = kidnap the boys' mum
1	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kidnap** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boys's mum |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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kidnap the boys' mum and keep her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t8:o4:1
# text = kidnap the boys' mum and keep her
1	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kidnap** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boys's mum |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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