Test 5 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

the secretary checked on him every 3rd day, what he see

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: secretary · What happens: check, see · To what, where: 3rd day

This is test 5 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 secretary	det
2	secretary	secretary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 checked	nsubj
3	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 checked	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
7	3rd	3rd	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 checked	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 see	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	8 day	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past	the secretary				day	on him = he	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location
2	see	present	secretary	every 3rd day					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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

he was pale and sad

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 pale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pale	cop
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sad	cc
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					pale property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 2

dude looked super thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 thin	advmod
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	dude					thin property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

dude was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dude was fat and rosy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fat	cop
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rosy	cc
5	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dude					fat property	tree rules
2	be		dude not said here						tree rules

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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