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title: What was the sentence the youth was first to suffer? — Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kep… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the sentence the youth was first to suffer? Exam question 1 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 1 · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

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What was the sentence the youth was first to suffer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sentence

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This is exam question 1 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, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/671-pg2435-part11/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e1:1
# text = What was the sentence the youth was first to suffer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the sentence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  | first, suffer *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Being thrown into the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e1:o1:1
# text = Being thrown into the river
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | into the river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into river=Result |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Death by hanging on the gallows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e1:o2:1
# text = Death by hanging on the gallows
1	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | gerund | Death *not said here* |  |  | the gallows |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gallows=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Exile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e1:o3:1
# text = Exile
1	Exile	Exile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Life imprisonment in a deep cellar beneath the royal palace grounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e1:o4:1
# text = Life imprisonment in a deep cellar beneath the royal palace grounds
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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