Exam question 2 · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the yout…

By what method did the youth instruct the king to distinguish the three foals according to the time of their birth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: method, youth · What happens: do, instruct, distinguish, accord · To what, where: king, three foals

This is exam question 2 of lesson 672 «Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the youth solves three riddles and outwits the Sultan's witch» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 instruct	nsubj
7	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 instruct	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 distinguish	mark
11	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 instruct	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 foals	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 foals	nummod
14	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 distinguish	obj
15	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 time	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 according	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 distinguish	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 birth	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 birth	nmod:poss
21	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 time	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	method				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	instruct speech: other	present	the youth		the king		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	distinguish	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	the three foals		time	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute foal=Theme
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

by feeding them oats, wheat, and barley from identical troughs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 feeding	mark
2	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feeding	obj
4	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feeding	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wheat	punct
6	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oats	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 barley	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 barley	cc
9	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oats	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 troughs	case
11	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 troughs	amod
12	troughs	trough	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feeding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund		them = they		identical troughs			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient oat=Theme

Option 2

by counting their spots at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 counting	mark
2	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spots	nmod:poss
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counting	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		their spots			dawn		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme

Option 3

by weighing them on a scale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 weighing	mark
2	weighing	weigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 weighing	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 scale	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scale	det
6	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weighing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	gerund		them = they		a scale			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value

Option 4

by measuring their height against the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 measuring	mark
2	measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 height	nmod:poss
4	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measuring	obj
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measuring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund		their height				against the wall	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme height=Value

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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