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title: Which object did the old Queen-mother place beneath the twenty mattr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the old Queen-mother place beneath the twenty mattresses? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/276-pg1597-part3/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e1:1
# text = Which object did the old Queen-mother place beneath the twenty mattresses?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Peas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e1:o1:1
# text = Peas
1	Peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Three peas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e1:o2:1
# text = Three peas
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e1:o3:1
# text = Three stones
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A bean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e1:o4:1
# text = A bean
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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