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title: Who shut the pirate up by smothering his mouth? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who shut the pirate up by smothering his mouth? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 334 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter ticks his way aboard the ship» 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 10 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

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Who shut the pirate up by smothering his mouth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** shut up, smother · **To what, where:** pirate, mouth

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 334 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter ticks his way aboard the ship» 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/334-pg16-part25/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t10:1
# text = Who shut the pirate up by smothering his mouth?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	smothering	smother	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | past |  | the pirate |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirate=Patient |
| 2 | **smother** | gerund |  | his mouth |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Destination |

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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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John

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t10:o1:1
# text = John
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tootles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t10:o2:1
# text = Tootles
1	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t10:o3:1
# text = Pan
1	Pan	pan	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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Curly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t10:o4:1
# text = Curly
1	Curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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