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title: Honest question, where do they plan to hang the youth? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: mu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honest question, where do they plan to hang the youth? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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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# Test 14 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

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Honest question, where do they plan to hang the youth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** plan, hang · **To what, where:** youth

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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/683-pg2435-part23/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t14:1
# text = Honest question, where do they plan to hang the youth?
1	Honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | present · do-support | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hang** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient |

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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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Beside the great oak tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t14:o1:1
# text = Beside the great oak tree
1	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At the foot of the tall gallows near the river bank, in front of the whole crowd

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t14:o2:1
# text = At the foot of the tall gallows near the river bank, in front of the whole crowd
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At the foot of the gallows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t14:o3:1
# text = At the foot of the gallows
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At the foot of the gallows built in the courtyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t14:o4:1
# text = At the foot of the gallows built in the courtyard
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | participle |  | the gallows *not said here* |  |  |  | in the courtyard | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in courtyard=Attribute |

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