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title: How many mattresses, like, did the queen pile on? — Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many mattresses, like, did the queen pile on? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

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How many mattresses, like, did the queen pile on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many mattresses · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** queen pile

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/951-pg27200-part162/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t4:1
# text = How many mattresses, like, did the queen pile on?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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:t4: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 mattresses high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t4:o2:1
# text = twenty mattresses high
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	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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twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t4:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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thirty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t4:o4:1
# text = thirty
1	thirty	thirty	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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