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title: Who was actually sat on the tom-tom when Peter was yapping? — Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was actually sat on the tom-tom when Peter was yapping? Test 5 · ★ 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 pra
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# Test 5 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Pirate Attack, part 21: Hook's pirates surp…

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Who was actually sat on the tom-tom when Peter was yapping?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** sit, yap · **To what, where:** tom tom

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t5:1
# text = Who was actually sat on the tom-tom when Peter was yapping?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	yapping	yap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · passive |  |  |  | the tom tom |  | actually *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on tom=Location |
| 2 | **yap** | past · progressive | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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Tootles, the Lost Boy with the drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t5:o1:1
# text = Tootles, the Lost Boy with the drum
1	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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 2 {#o2}

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Jukes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t5:o2:1
# text = Jukes
1	Jukes	Jukes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Smee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t5:o3:1
# text = Smee
1	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cecco

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:330-pg16-part21:t5:o4:1
# text = Cecco
1	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	NNP	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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