Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leave…

Identify the consequence which ensued upon the contact of Prince Majnun's hand with Laili's garments.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, consequence · What happens: identify, ensue, contact · To what, where: consequence, contact, hand

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consequence	det
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ensued	nsubj
5	ensued	ensue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consequence	acl:relcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 contact	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 contact	det
8	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ensued	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 hand	case
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Majnun	nmod:desc
11	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hand	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Majnun	case
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contact	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 garments	case
15	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 garments	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Laili	case
17	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hand	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the consequence		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent consequence=Theme
2	ensue	past	the consequence		the contact of Majnun Prince's hand with Laili's garments	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon contact=Location
3	contact			Majnun Prince's hand with Laili's garments		nom contact «act 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

Her garments turned to gold and both were freed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 garments	nmod:poss
2	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 freed	cc
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 freed	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 freed	aux:pass
9	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Her garments			gold			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to gold=Trajectory
2	free	past · passive		both					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

Option 2

Her clothes burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 clothes	nmod:poss
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 burned	nsubj:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle · passive		Her clothes					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her garments caught fire and both regained youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 garments	nmod:poss
2	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 youth	cc
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 youth	det
7	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 youth	amod
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Her garments	fire and both regained youth					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	regain	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They caught fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	They	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

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