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title: Which object was concealed beneath the twenty mattresses by the Queen? — Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object was concealed beneath the twenty mattresses by the Queen? Exam question 1 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

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Which object was concealed beneath the twenty mattresses by the Queen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** conceal · **To what, where:** object, twenty mattresses

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This is exam question 1 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/951-pg27200-part162/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e1:1
# text = Which object was concealed beneath the twenty mattresses by the Queen?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | past · passive | the Queen | which object |  | the twenty mattresses |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Patient beneath mattress=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e1:o1:1
# text = ring
1	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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nut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e1:o2:1
# text = nut
1	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a bead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e1:o3:1
# text = a bead
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bead	bead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a pea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e1:o4:1
# text = a pea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pea	pea	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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