Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

How did the Princess describe the quality of her night's sleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess, night · What happens: describe, sleep · To what, where: quality

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 describe	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 describe	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 describe	nsubj
5	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 quality	det
7	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describe	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 night	nmod:poss
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 night	case
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quality	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	past · do-support	the Princess	the quality of Princess's night's sleep					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent quality=Theme
2	sleep		Princess's night						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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

badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

not well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 well	advmod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

very badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 badly	advmod
2	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

very poorly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 poorly	advmod
2	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	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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