Test 3 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the yout…

wait, how did the king tell the foals apart?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: wait, tell · To what, where: foals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tell	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foals	det
9	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	obj
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the king		the foals			apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent foal=Recipient

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

hay, straw, and grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 straw	punct
3	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hay	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grass	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grass	cc
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hay	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

apples, pears, and plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pears	punct
3	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 apples	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plums	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plums	cc
6	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 apples	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

oats, wheat, and barley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wheat	punct
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 oats	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 barley	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 barley	cc
6	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 oats	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

sugar, salt, and honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 salt	punct
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sugar	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honey	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 honey	cc
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sugar	conj

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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