Test 9 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the yout…

the youth was shut in a tower but still got out, how?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: shut, get out · To what, where: youth, tower

This is test 9 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	aux:pass
4	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tower	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tower	det
7	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
10	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shut	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 got	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 how	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 shut	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past · passive		the youth		a tower			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	get out	participle					still		vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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

he climbed out a window

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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 climbed	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb out	past	he	a window					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location window=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the king pardoned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pardoned	nsubj
3	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pardoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pardon	past	the king	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

the princess broke the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the princess	the door					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the guards let him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	the guards	him = he					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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