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title: What was waiting for him in the water? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was waiting for him in the water? Test 9 · ★ 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 cho
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# Test 9 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 27: Hook is beaten, jumps to th…

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What was waiting for him in the water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** wait · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t9:1
# text = What was waiting for him in the water?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the water |  | for him *= he* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=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 {#o1}

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The hungry crocodile that had swallowed a clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t9:o1:1
# text = The hungry crocodile that had swallowed a clock
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past · perfect · passive |  | the hungry crocodile |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The crocodile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t9:o2:1
# text = The crocodile
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crocodile	crocodile	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 redskins' canoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t9:o3:1
# text = The redskins' canoe
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	redskins	redskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	canoe	canoe	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 tick-tock clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:336-pg16-part27:t9:o4:1
# text = The tick-tock clock
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tock	tock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	clock	clock	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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