Exam question 4 · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…
What did the king of the Magyars request on behalf of the condemned youth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, request, condemn · To what, where: behalf
This is exam question 4 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 request | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Magyars | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Magyars | det |
| 7 | Magyars | Magyar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 king | nmod |
| 8 | request | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 behalf | case |
| 10 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 request | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 13 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 youth | amod |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 behalf | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | request | present | the king of the Magyars | behalf of the condemned youth | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | condemn | participle | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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
That he be given a trial
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trial | det |
| 6 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive · passive | That | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient trial=Theme |
Option 2
Mercy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
That his life be spared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 life | nsubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spared | aux:pass |
| 5 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 life | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | infinitive · passive | his life not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset» |
Option 4
A pardon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pardon | det |
| 2 | pardon | pardon | 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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