Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a hous…

On what basis did Peter measure the children for their hollow trees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: measure · To what, where: children, basis

This is exam question 2 of lesson 322 «Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a house and she agrees to be their mother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 basis	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 basis	nsubj
3	basis	basis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measure	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 measure	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 measure	nsubj
6	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 measure	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 trees	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trees	nmod:poss
11	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 measure	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 measure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past · do-support	Peter	the children		basis		for children's hollow trees	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme child=Value

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

so that each tree would fit its owner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 fit	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	1 so	fixed
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fit	aux
6	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 owner	nmod:poss
8	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	would	each tree	tree's owner					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Patient

Option 2

so each tree would suit its owner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 suit	advmod
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suit	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 suit	aux
5	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 owner	nmod:poss
7	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suit	would	each tree	tree's owner					tree rules

Option 3

to make the trees the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 size	amod
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the trees					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset tree=Beneficiary size=Product

Option 4

for the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 trees	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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