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title: Which instrument did Hook order Smee to sound, so that the boys woul… — Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which instrument did Hook order Smee to sound, so that the boys would be deceived? Exam question 3 of lesson 330 «Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surprise the Piccaninnies in the dark, and Hook tricks the boys with the tom-tom» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Exam question 3 · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

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Which instrument did Hook order Smee to sound, so that the boys would be deceived?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** instrument · **What happens:** order, sound, deceive · **To what, where:** Smee, boys

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 330 «Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surprise the Piccaninnies in the dark, and Hook tricks the boys with the tom-tom» 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/330-pg16-part21/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:e3:1
# text = Which instrument did Hook order Smee to sound, so that the boys would be deceived?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past · do-support | which instrument |  | Smee |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent smee=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | which instrument *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **deceive** | would · passive |  | the boys |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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Drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:e3:o1:1
# text = Drum
1	Drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The tomahawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:e3:o2:1
# text = The tomahawk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tomahawk	tomahawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Horn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:e3:o3:1
# text = Horn
1	Horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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The tom-tom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:e3:o4:1
# text = The tom-tom
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	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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