Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leave…
State the name of the creature within which the heroine was concealed for a period of twelve years.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, conceal, name · To what, where: name, heroine, creature
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1827 «Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leaves the fish, grows young, is turned to ashes, and returns as a little white dog» 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 creature | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 creature | det |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 concealed | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heroine | det |
| 10 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 concealed | aux:pass |
| 12 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 creature | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 period | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 period | det |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 concealed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 period | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the name of the creature | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | conceal | past · passive | the heroine | within the creature; for a period of twelve years | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | the creature | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
The lake eel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eel | det |
| 2 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eel | compound |
| 3 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Rohu fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | Rohu | Rohu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | compound |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The large Rohu fish from the palace pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 3 | Rohu | Rohu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fish | compound |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pond | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pond | compound |
| 8 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fish | nmod |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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