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title: Did the boys say yes to Hook's offer, or give him a flat no? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the boys say yes to Hook's offer, or give him a flat no? Test 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 question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 2 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

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Did the boys say yes to Hook's offer, or give him a flat no?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boys, Hook · **What happens:** say, give, offer · **To what, where:** offer, flat no, Hook · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t2:1
# text = Did the boys say yes to Hook's offer, or give him a flat no?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	no	no	NOUN	NN	_	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the boys |  | Hook's offer |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to offer=Recipient |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | the boys *not said here* | a flat no | Hook |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient no=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** |  | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | nom offer «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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flat no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t2:o1:1
# text = flat no
1	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a flat yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t2:o2:1
# text = a flat yes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	yes	yes	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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yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t2:o3:1
# text = yes
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t2:o4:1
# text = no
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	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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