Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leave…

Explain the reason for which the angel dispatched by Khuda assumed the appearance of a fakir.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, angel · What happens: explain, dispatch, assume · To what, where: reason, angel, appearance

This is exam question 3 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	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 assumed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 angel	det
7	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assumed	nsubj
8	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 angel	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Khuda	case
10	Khuda	Khuda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dispatched	obl
11	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 appearance	det
13	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assumed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fakir	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fakir	det
16	fakir	fakir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appearance	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	dispatch	participle		the angel not said here	by Khuda	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	assume	past	the angel	the appearance of a fakir	for the reason	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme

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 right answer

To test how deeply Majnun loved his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loved	advcl
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 deeply	advmod
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	2 test	advmod
5	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 loved	nsubj
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive	Majnun not said here					deeply property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	love	past	Majnun	Majnun's wife					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

Option 2

To punish the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		the prince					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient

Option 3

To see how often Majnun visited the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 visited	advcl
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 often	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
5	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 visited	nsubj
6	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visited	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	Majnun not said here					often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	visit	past	Majnun	the palace					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Co-Agent

Option 4

To test Majnun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		Majnun					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majnun=Theme

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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