Test 13 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the yout…
ok, last one, what did the youth say to calm the princess down?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: say, calm down · To what, where: last one, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 say | obj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 calm | mark |
| 12 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calm | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 calm | compound:prt |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the youth | last one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | calm down | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | the princess | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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
stop being so dramatic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 stop | xcomp |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 dramatic | advmod |
| 4 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | dramatic property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
all will be well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 all | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 all | nmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 be | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
I'm going home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 going | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
leave me alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 leave | obj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | me | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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