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title: What measure did Hook threaten to adopt upon the children's refusal,… — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook br… · tree and pragmatics
description: What measure did Hook threaten to adopt upon the children's refusal, as stated in the passage? Exam question 4 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
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# Exam question 4 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

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What measure did Hook threaten to adopt upon the children's refusal, as stated in the passage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Hook, children · **What happens:** be, threaten, adopt, state, refuse · **To what, where:** passage

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e4:1
# text = What measure did Hook threaten to adopt upon the children's refusal, as stated in the passage?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	measure	measure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	threaten	threaten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	adopt	adopt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **threaten** | past · do-support | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **adopt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the children's refusal | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **state** *speech: other* | participle | Hook *not said here* |  |  | the passage |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **refuse** |  | the children |  |  |  |  |  | nom refusal «communication transitive»: 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 {#o1}

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rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e4:o1:1
# text = rope
1	rope	rope	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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plank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e4:o2:1
# text = plank
1	plank	plank	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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gun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e4:o3:1
# text = gun
1	gun	gun	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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chains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:e4:o4:1
# text = chains
1	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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