Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…
How many mattresses, like, did the queen pile on?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many mattresses · What happens: do · To what, where: queen pile
This is test 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. 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 | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mattresses | amod |
| 3 | mattresses | mattress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 did | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pile | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pile | compound |
| 10 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | many mattresses | the queen pile | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Eventuality |
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 mattresses high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 mattresses | nummod |
| 2 | mattresses | mattress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 high | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ 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.
Option 4
thirty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thirty | thirty | 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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