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title: Tootles totally blamed his mum, the cheeky swot. — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tootles totally blamed his mum, the cheeky swot. Test 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 the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 4 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 24: Hook broods, the boys refus…

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Tootles totally blamed his mum, the cheeky swot.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tootles · **What happens:** blame · **To what, where:** mum

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This is test 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t4:1
# text = Tootles totally blamed his mum, the cheeky swot.
1	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	swot	swot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | past | Tootles | his mum and the cheeky swot |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme |

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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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scolded his nan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t4:o1:1
# text = scolded his nan
1	scolded	scold	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	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | past |  | his nan |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nan=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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blamed his mum for everything at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t4:o2:1
# text = blamed his mum for everything at sea
1	blamed	blame	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	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | past |  | his mum |  | sea |  | for everything | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent mum=Theme for everything=Attribute |

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

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blamed his mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t4:o3:1
# text = blamed his mum
1	blamed	blame	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	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | past |  | his mum |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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blamed Mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:333-pg16-part24:t4:o4:1
# text = blamed Mum
1	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: 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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