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title: What reason does Peter give for the lost boys lacking female compani… — Peter Pan, Come Away Come Away!, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What reason does Peter give for the lost boys lacking female companionship? Exam question 2 of lesson 315 «Peter Pan, Come Away Come Away!, part 6: Peter tempts Wendy to fly off to Neverland to tell stories» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Come Away Come Away!, part 6: Peter tempts Wend…

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What reason does Peter give for the lost boys lacking female companionship?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** reason, lost boys · **What happens:** give, lose, lack · **To what, where:** female companionship

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 315 «Peter Pan, Come Away Come Away!, part 6: Peter tempts Wendy to fly off to Neverland to tell stories» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/315-pg16-part6/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:315-pg16-part6:e2:1
# text = What reason does Peter give for the lost boys lacking female companionship?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	companionship	companionship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · do-support | what reason |  |  |  |  | for the lost boys | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for boy=Asset |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lack** | gerund | the lost boys *not said here* | female companionship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Girls are too busy to play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:315-pg16-part6:e2:o1:1
# text = Girls are too busy to play
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Girls |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Girls never fall out of prams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:315-pg16-part6:e2:o2:1
# text = Girls never fall out of prams
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	prams	pram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall** | present | Girls |  |  | prams |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out pram=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Girls are clever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:315-pg16-part6:e2:o3:1
# text = Girls are clever
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	clever	clever	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** | present | Girls |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Girls are too clever to fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:315-pg16-part6:e2:o4:1
# text = Girls are too clever to fall
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Girls |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive | Girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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