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title: What made Hook drop like a sack of spuds? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What made Hook drop like a sack of spuds? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

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What made Hook drop like a sack of spuds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hook · **What happens:** make, drop

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t5:1
# text = What made Hook drop like a sack of spuds?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	spuds	spud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | infinitive | Hook |  |  |  |  | like a sack of spuds | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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the tick-tick of the clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t5:o1:1
# text = the tick-tick of the clock
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tick** |  |  | the clock |  |  |  |  | nom tick «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the sea wave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t5:o2:1
# text = the sea wave
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wave	wave	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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the cannon shot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t5:o3:1
# text = the cannon shot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the tick-tick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t5:o4:1
# text = the tick-tick
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tick	tick	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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