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title: What's Hook's song about, bare dull? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's Hook's song about, bare dull? Test 12 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

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What's Hook's song about, bare dull?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** song · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** song

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t12:1
# text = What's Hook's song about, bare dull?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	bare	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Hook's song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | infinitive | Hook's song *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about, dull *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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the frisky plank and the pirate's song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t12:o1:1
# text = the frisky plank and the pirate's song
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frisky	frisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** |  | the pirate |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the bloody sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t12:o2:1
# text = the bloody sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the frisky plank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t12:o3:1
# text = the frisky plank
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frisky	frisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plank	plank	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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the mighty deck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t12:o4:1
# text = the mighty deck
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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