Test 14 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…

so Prince Majnun just left Laili, like proper mean

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: leave, mean · To what, where: Laili

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a fish» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
3	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	flat
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mean	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 mean	mark
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 mean	advmod
10	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Prince	Laili					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laili=Theme
2	mean	present						properly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

he left for a far land the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 land	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 land	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he				day	for a far land	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for land=Recipient

Option 2

nah he was sent away by her dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 dad	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past · passive	her dad	he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he left the country that night, she never knew till later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 country	det
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 knew	advmod
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	parataxis
11	till	till	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	the country			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
2	not know	past	she					late, till property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

nah, he stayed with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					with her = she	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location

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