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title: bare mess at teatime, right? who was complaining? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Nev… · tree and pragmatics
description: bare mess at teatime, right? who was complaining? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 327 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Never bird's new nest, the boys' late bedtime, and Peter's return with nuts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Never bird's new nest,…

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bare mess at teatime, right? who was complaining?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bare mess · **What happens:** complain

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 327 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Never bird's new nest, the boys' late bedtime, and Peter's return with nuts» 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/327-pg16-part18/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t10:1
# text = bare mess at teatime, right? who was complaining?
1	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	teatime	teatime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | past · progressive | bare mess at teatime |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the twins, Curly, Nibs, Slightly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t10:o1:1
# text = the twins, Curly, Nibs, Slightly
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Nibs	nib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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John and Tootles, both very cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t10:o2:1
# text = John and Tootles, both very cross
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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every single one of the lost boys at the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t10:o3:1
# text = every single one of the lost boys at the table
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Michael, Tootles, and Peter Pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t10:o4:1
# text = Michael, Tootles, and Peter Pan
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
```

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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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