Test 12 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

why did the king kick him out at first

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: kick out · To what, where: him

This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 kick	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kick	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kick	nsubj
5	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kick	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 kick	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	past · do-support	the king	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient at first=Location

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

he was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

Option 2

he broke a sacred vow at court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vow	det
4	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vow	amod
5	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 court	case
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	a sacred vow		court			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vow=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he refused to kneel for mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kneel	mark
4	kneel	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 mercy	case
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kneel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not kneel	to-infinitive	he not said here					for mercy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he wouldnt do as he was told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	wouldnt	wouldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 he	flat
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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