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title: and Mr Darling was going on about how six was a proper lot of kids,… — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: and Mr Darling was going on about how six was a proper lot of kids, bless him Test 6 · ★ of lesson 338 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come home, and Peter flies off alone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come h…

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and Mr Darling was going on about how six was a proper lot of kids, bless him

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mr, you · **What happens:** go on, be, bless · **To what, where:** proper lot, Mr

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 338 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, the ending: the lost children come home, and Peter flies off alone» 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/338-pg16-part29/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:338-pg16-part29:t6:1
# text = and Mr Darling was going on about how six was a proper lot of kids, bless him
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · progressive | Mr |  |  |  |  | about six | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about six=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a proper lot |  |  |  | of kids | tree rules |
| 3 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | Mr |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah he reckoned six was a right handful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:338-pg16-part29:t6:o1:1
# text = yeah he reckoned six was a right handful
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | six | a right handful |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah he thought six kids was a lot to handle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:338-pg16-part29:t6:o2:1
# text = yeah he thought six kids was a lot to handle
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | six kids | a lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **handle** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah he said six was fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:338-pg16-part29:t6:o3:1
# text = yeah he said six was fine
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | six |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah he was quite happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:338-pg16-part29:t6:o4:1
# text = nah he was quite happy
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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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