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title: How did the Princess describe the quality of her night's sleep? — Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the Princess describe the quality of her night's sleep? Exam question 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

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How did the Princess describe the quality of her night's sleep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess, night · **What happens:** describe, sleep · **To what, where:** quality

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This is exam question 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, 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e4:1
# text = How did the Princess describe the quality of her night's sleep?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past · do-support | the Princess | the quality of Princess's night's sleep |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent quality=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** |  | Princess's night |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e4:o1:1
# text = badly
1	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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not well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e4:o2:1
# text = not well
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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very badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e4:o3:1
# text = very badly
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very poorly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:e4:o4:1
# text = very poorly
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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