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title: no cap, why did the bird ditch her nest? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Nev… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, why did the bird ditch her nest? Test 3 · ★ 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 each option;
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# Test 3 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 18: the Never bird's new nest,…

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no cap, why did the bird ditch her nest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** ditch · **To what, where:** nest

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t3:1
# text = no cap, why did the bird ditch her nest?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ditch	ditch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ditch** | past · do-support | no cap | bird's nest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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the hat was too big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t3:o1:1
# text = the hat was too big
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hat |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it was too wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t3:o2:1
# text = it was too wet
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the eggs had hatched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t3:o3:1
# text = the eggs had hatched
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | past · perfect · passive |  | the eggs |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |

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

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the hat was a massive hit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:327-pg16-part18:t3:o4:1
# text = the hat was a massive hit
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the hat | a massive hit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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