Exam question 2 · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

In what structure was the youth finally confined?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: confine · To what, where: youth, structure

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 structure	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 structure	det
3	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 confined	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 confined	aux:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 confined	nsubj:pass
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 confined	advmod
8	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 confined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	past · passive		the youth		what structure		finally property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in structure=Destination

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

A cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A high stone tower guarded day and night by armed soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tower	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tower	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tower	compound
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tower	acl
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guarded	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 night	cc
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 soldiers	case
10	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soldiers	amod
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	participle		a high stone tower not said here			day	by armed soldiers	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A walled tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tower	det
2	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tower	amod
3	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wall	participle							tree rules

Option 4

A hidden hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hut	det
2	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hut	amod
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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