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title: Did Hook actually claw Smee, or did he chicken out? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Hook actually claw Smee, or did he chicken out? Test 10 · ★ 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 question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

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Did Hook actually claw Smee, or did he chicken out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Smee · **What happens:** do, do out, chicken · **To what, where:** Hook

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t10:1
# text = Did Hook actually claw Smee, or did he chicken out?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Hook |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do out** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chicken** |  | Smee |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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lost his nerve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t10:o1:1
# text = lost his nerve
1	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	nerve	nerve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past |  | his nerve |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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chickened out and hid below deck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t10:o2:1
# text = chickened out and hid below deck
1	chickened	chicken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	below	below	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chicken out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hide** | past |  | below deck |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deck=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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chickened out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t10:o3:1
# text = chickened out
1	chickened	chicken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chicken out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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chickened out after a long speech

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t10:o4:1
# text = chickened out after a long speech
1	chickened	chicken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chicken out** | participle |  |  |  |  | after a long speech |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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