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title: Where was the ticking actually coming from, fam? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was the ticking actually coming from, fam? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 25: Hook hides while Peter tick…

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Where was the ticking actually coming from, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ticking · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** fam

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t6:1
# text = Where was the ticking actually coming from, fam?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ticking	ticking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ticking |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the ticking *not said here* |  |  | fam |  | actually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fam=Initial\_Location |

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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 rigging

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t6:o1:1
# text = the rigging
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rigging	rigging	NOUN	NN	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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the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t6:o2:1
# text = the sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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 {#o3}

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a boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t6:o3:1
# text = a boat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	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 water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:334-pg16-part25:t6:o4:1
# text = the water
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	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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