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title: Oi, what did the coyote calls do to the paleface waiting? — Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what did the coyote calls do to the paleface waiting? Test 14 · ★ 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 the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 14 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

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Oi, what did the coyote calls do to the paleface waiting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coyote calls, paleface · **What happens:** do, wait

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This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t14:1
# text = Oi, what did the coyote calls do to the paleface waiting?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	paleface	paleface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the coyote calls |  |  |  |  | to the paleface | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the paleface *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Woke the sleeping pirates up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t14:o1:1
# text = Woke the sleeping pirates up
1	Woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pirates	pirate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | the sleeping *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pirate up** | present | the sleeping |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Made the paleface's heart race and his hands shake as the boys whispered in the dark

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t14:o2:1
# text = Made the paleface's heart race and his hands shake as the boys whispered in the dark
1	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	paleface	paleface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the paleface's heart race |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset race=Product |
| 2 | **shake** | present | his hands |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | the boys |  |  | the dark |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |
| 4 | **race** |  | the paleface |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Made the waiting horribly tense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t14:o3:1
# text = Made the waiting horribly tense
1	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tense	tense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the waiting |  |  |  | tense *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset waiting=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Made the pirates stop waiting and rush straight into the dark camp with their knives

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t14:o4:1
# text = Made the pirates stop waiting and rush straight into the dark camp with their knives
1	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the pirates |  |  |  |  | stop *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | the pirates *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | present | the pirates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the dark camp with pirates's knives *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into camp=Result |

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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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