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title: where was the boy chillin before the tower — Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kep… · tree and pragmatics
description: where was the boy chillin before the tower Test 8 · ★ 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; Mova's choi
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# Test 8 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Kept His Secret, part 1…

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where was the boy chillin before the tower

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy chillin · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:t8:1
# text = where was the boy chillin before the tower
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the boy chillin |  |  |  | before the tower | where *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the summer-house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:t8:o1:1
# text = the summer-house
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a little wooden house in the far corner of the palace garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:t8:o2:1
# text = a little wooden house in the far corner of the palace garden
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the back garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:t8:o3:1
# text = the back garden
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	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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the stables

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:671-pg2435-part11:t8:o4:1
# text = the stables
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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