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title: Did Peter let the shell blow the ship up? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Peter let the shell blow the ship up? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 336 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to the crocodile, and the children sail for home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to th…

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Did Peter let the shell blow the ship up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peter, shell · **What happens:** let, blow up · **To what, where:** shell, ship

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 336 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to the crocodile, and the children sail for home» 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/336-pg16-part27/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t6:1
# text = Did Peter let the shell blow the ship up?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past · do-support | Peter | the shell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow up** | infinitive | the shell *not said here* | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |

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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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Yeah, he lit it and then chucked it overboard after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t6:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he lit it and then chucked it overboard after
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 2 | **chuck after** | past | he *not said here* | it |  |  | then | overboard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, he chucked it overboard into the sea quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t6:o2:1
# text = Nah, he chucked it overboard into the sea quick
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | past | he | it |  | the sea |  | overboard, quick *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into sea=Destination |

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

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Nah, he chucked it overboard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t6:o3:1
# text = Nah, he chucked it overboard
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | past | he | it |  |  |  | overboard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, he lit the fuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t6:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he lit the fuse
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fuse	fuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past | he | the fuse |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuse=Product |

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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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