Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…

Which object did the old Queen-mother place beneath the twenty mattresses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Queen · What happens: do, place

This is exam question 1 of lesson 276 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests a wet visitor with three peas» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 place	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Queen	punct
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	compound
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 mattresses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mattresses	det
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 mattresses	nummod
13	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 place	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	place		Queen					beneath the twenty mattresses	tree rules

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

Peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 peas	nummod
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Three stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stones	nummod
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

A bean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bean	det
2	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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