Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

Was the old queen super clever, or just lucky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old queen

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 queen	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queen	amod
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clever	csubj
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lucky	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 lucky	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 lucky	advmod
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clever	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old queen					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

She put a pea under mattresses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pea	det
4	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 mattresses	case
6	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	She	a pea		mattresses			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme under mattress=Destination

Option 2

She tested the prince with a bean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tested	nsubj
2	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tested	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bean	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bean	det
7	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	past	She	the prince				with a bean	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme

Option 3

She tested the princess with a pea under twenty mattresses and feather beds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tested	nsubj
2	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tested	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pea	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pea	det
7	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tested	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 mattresses	case
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 mattresses	nummod
10	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tested	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beds	cc
12	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beds	compound
13	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mattresses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	past	She	the princess		twenty mattresses and feather beds		with a pea	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She tested the princess with a pea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tested	nsubj
2	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tested	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pea	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pea	det
7	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	past	She	the princess				with a pea	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

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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