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title: On what basis did Peter measure the children for their hollow trees? — Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boy… · tree and pragmatics
description: On what basis did Peter measure the children for their hollow trees? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 2 · Peter Pan, Peter Pan, part 13: the boys build Wendy a hous…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/322-pg16-part13/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:322-pg16-part13:e2:1
# text = On what basis did Peter measure the children for their hollow trees?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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}

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so that each tree would fit its owner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:322-pg16-part13:e2:o1:1
# text = so that each tree would fit its owner
1	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	6	mark	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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so each tree would suit its owner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:322-pg16-part13:e2:o2:1
# text = so each tree would suit its owner
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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to make the trees the same size

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:322-pg16-part13:e2:o3:1
# text = to make the trees the same size
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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for the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:322-pg16-part13:e2:o4:1
# text = for the trees
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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