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title: What did the king of the Magyars request on behalf of the condemned… — Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kep… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the king of the Magyars request on behalf of the condemned youth? Exam question 4 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 que
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# Exam question 4 · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

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What did the king of the Magyars request on behalf of the condemned youth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** do, request, condemn · **To what, where:** behalf

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e4:1
# text = What did the king of the Magyars request on behalf of the condemned youth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Magyars	Magyar	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	request	request	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **request** | present | the king of the Magyars |  |  | behalf of the condemned youth |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **condemn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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That he be given a trial

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e4:o1:1
# text = That he be given a trial
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | infinitive · passive |  | That |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient trial=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mercy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e4:o2:1
# text = Mercy
1	Mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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That his life be spared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e4:o3:1
# text = That his life be spared
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spare** | infinitive · passive |  | his life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset» |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A pardon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:e4:o4:1
# text = A pardon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pardon	pardon	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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