Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

What was the number of eider-down beds placed upon the mattresses?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: number · What happens: be, place · To what, where: down beds, mattresses

This is exam question 2 of lesson 951 «Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a real princess» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 beds	case
6	eider	eider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 down	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 eider	punct
8	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beds	compound
9	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
10	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beds	acl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 mattresses	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mattresses	det
13	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 placed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the number of down beds						tree rules
2	place	participle		down beds not said here		the mattresses			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon mattress=Destination

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

twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

twenty-two beds piled high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 beds	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 twenty	conj
4	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 beds	acl
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 piled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile	participle		twenty beds not said here				high property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 3

ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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