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title: What was the number of eider-down beds placed upon the mattresses? — Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the number of eider-down beds placed upon the mattresses? Exam question 2 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; Mova's 
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

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What was the number of eider-down beds placed upon the mattresses?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** number · **What happens:** be, place · **To what, where:** down beds, mattresses

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e2:1
# text = What was the number of eider-down beds placed upon the mattresses?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the number of down beds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | down beds *not said here* |  | the mattresses |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon mattress=Destination |

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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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twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e2:o1:1
# text = twelve
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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twenty-two beds piled high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e2:o2:1
# text = twenty-two beds piled high
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile** | participle |  | twenty beds *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e2:o3:1
# text = ten
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e2:o4:1
# text = twenty
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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