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title: In what location were the children confined prior to their appearanc… — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook br… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what location were the children confined prior to their appearance upon the deck? Exam question 2 of lesson 333 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refuse, and Wendy is brought up» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

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In what location were the children confined prior to their appearance upon the deck?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** be

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 333 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refuse, and Wendy is brought up» 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/333-pg16-part24/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e2:1
# text = In what location were the children confined prior to their appearance upon the deck?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	confined	confine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | prior children's appearance; upon the deck; confine *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the hold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e2:o1:1
# text = the hold
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the lower cargo room beneath the deck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e2:o2:1
# text = the lower cargo room beneath the deck
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the locked cabin at the bottom of the ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e2:o3:1
# text = the locked cabin at the bottom of the ship
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the galley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e2:o4:1
# text = the galley
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	galley	galley	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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