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title: In what structure was the youth finally confined? — Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kep… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what structure was the youth finally confined? Exam question 2 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 option;
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# Exam question 2 · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

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In what structure was the youth finally confined?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** confine · **To what, where:** youth, structure

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e2:1
# text = In what structure was the youth finally confined?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | past · passive |  | the youth |  | what structure |  | finally *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in structure=Destination |

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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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A cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e2:o1:1
# text = A cave
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A high stone tower guarded day and night by armed soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e2:o2:1
# text = A high stone tower guarded day and night by armed soldiers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | participle |  | a high stone tower *not said here* |  |  | day | by armed soldiers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A walled tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e2:o3:1
# text = A walled tower
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A hidden hut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e2:o4:1
# text = A hidden hut
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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