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title: Identify the oath which Peter swears before undertaking his perilous… — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook po… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the oath which Peter swears before undertaking his perilous quest against the pirates. Exam question 4 of lesson 332 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook poisons Peter's medicine, and Tink drinks it to save him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook poisons Peter's medici…

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Identify the oath which Peter swears before undertaking his perilous quest against the pirates.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, oath, Peter · **What happens:** identify, swear, undertake, quest · **To what, where:** oath, perilous quest

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 332 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 23: Hook poisons Peter's medicine, and Tink drinks it to save him» 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/332-pg16-part23/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:332-pg16-part23:e4:1
# text = Identify the oath which Peter swears before undertaking his perilous quest against the pirates.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swears	swear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	undertaking	undertake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the oath |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** | present | the oath |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **undertake** | gerund | the oath *not said here* | Peter's perilous quest |  |  |  | against the pirates | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Eventuality |
| 4 | **quest** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition 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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"Hook or me this time"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:332-pg16-part23:e4:o1:1
# text = "Hook or me this time"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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I will find Hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:332-pg16-part23:e4:o2:1
# text = I will find Hook
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future | I | Hook |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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I swear by the stars I will fight Hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:332-pg16-part23:e4:o3:1
# text = I swear by the stars I will fight Hook
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present | I |  |  |  |  | by the stars | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | future | I | Hook |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tink, I swear this

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:332-pg16-part23:e4:o4:1
# text = Tink, I swear this
1	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present | I | this |  |  |  | Tink *vocative* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

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