--- title: wait, how did the king tell the foals apart? — Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Yout… · tree and pragmatics description: wait, how did the king tell the foals apart? Test 3 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Yout…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the yout… wait, how did the king tell the foals apart? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, king · **What happens:** wait, tell · **To what, where:** foals · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 3 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/672-pg2435-part12/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t3:1 # text = wait, how did the king tell the foals apart? 1 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 foals foal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 apart apart ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the king | | the foals | | | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent foal=Recipient | 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 {#o1} hay, straw, and grass ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t3:o1:1 # text = hay, straw, and grass 1 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} apples, pears, and plums ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t3:o2:1 # text = apples, pears, and plums 1 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 pears pear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} oats, wheat, and barley ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t3:o3:1 # text = oats, wheat, and barley 1 oats oat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 barley barley NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} sugar, salt, and honey ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:672-pg2435-part12:t3:o4:1 # text = sugar, salt, and honey 1 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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