Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leave…

Was the dog Laili for real, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog Laili · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Laili	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Laili	compound
4	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 real	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 real	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	6 real	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct

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

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

Yes, she turned into one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she					into one	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, she turned into a little white dog and slept in his bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 dog	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bed	nmod:poss
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she					into a little white dog result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dog=Result
2	sleep	past	she not said here			dog's bed			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

Option 3

Yes, she was a dog then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dog	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dog	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a dog			then		tree rules

Option 4

No way, that was just a story Majnun made up for the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 story	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 story	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 story	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 story	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	conj
9	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 story	appos
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 made	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 court	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 court	det
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	a story					tree rules
2	make up	past	no way and a story					for the court	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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