Exam question 1 · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

What was the sentence the youth was first to suffer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: be · To what, where: sentence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 671 «Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 11: walled up in a tower, fed in secret» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 sentence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sentence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sentence	det
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suffer	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 suffer	cop
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 suffer	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 suffer	mark
10	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sentence	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sentence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sentence					tree rules
2	is	past	the youth					first, suffer property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Being thrown into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thrown	aux:pass
2	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund · passive						into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into river=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Death by hanging on the gallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 hanging	mark
3	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Death	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 gallows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gallows	det
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	Death not said here			the gallows			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gallows=Location

Option 3

Exile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exile	Exile	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Life imprisonment in a deep cellar beneath the royal palace grounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imprisonment	compound
2	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cellar	amod
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imprisonment	nmod
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 grounds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grounds	det
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grounds	amod
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grounds	compound
11	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 imprisonment	nmod

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

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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