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title: Which instrument did Smee strike to signal the pirates' triumph? — Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which instrument did Smee strike to signal the pirates' triumph? Exam question 1 of lesson 331 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carried off, and Hook finds Peter asleep» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 1 · Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carr…

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Which instrument did Smee strike to signal the pirates' triumph?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** instrument, pirates · **What happens:** strike, signal, triumph · **To what, where:** triumph

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 331 «Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, part 22: the captives are carried off, and Hook finds Peter asleep» 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/331-pg16-part22/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:331-pg16-part22:e1:1
# text = Which instrument did Smee strike to signal the pirates' triumph?
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	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	signal	signal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past · do-support | which instrument |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **signal** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | which instrument *not said here* | the pirates's triumph |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triumph=Topic |
| 3 | **triumph** |  | the pirates |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the tom-tom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:331-pg16-part22:e1:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a gong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:331-pg16-part22:e1:o2:1
# text = a gong
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gong	gong	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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a drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:331-pg16-part22:e1:o3:1
# text = a drum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	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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the cymbal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:331-pg16-part22:e1:o4:1
# text = the cymbal
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cymbal	cymbal	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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