Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leave…

Why did Majnun's dad want him to get hitched again?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: want, hitch · To what, where: Majnun

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Majnun	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hitched	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 hitched	mark
9	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hitched	aux:pass
10	hitched	hitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 hitched	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 hitched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Majnun's dad	Majnun					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	hitch	to-infinitive · passive					again		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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 · ✓ the right answer

Laili was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Laili					dead property	tree rules

Option 2

She was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					sick property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Wazir's daughter had fallen in love with someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wazir	det
2	Wazir	Wazir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Wazir	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 love	case
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 someone	case
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 fallen	obl
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 someone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the Wazir's daughter			love		with someone	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location

Option 4

Laili had turned into a dog and vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl:agent
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 vanished	cc
8	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	Laili						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	vanish	past	Laili not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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