Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leave…

Wot did Laili's clothes do when Majnun touched em?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot, clothes, Majnun · What happens: do, touch · To what, where: em

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 clothes	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Laili	case
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 touched	advmod
8	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 touched	nsubj
9	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Wot		tree rules
2	do	present	Laili's clothes		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	touch	past	Majnun	em = they	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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

Turned into shining silver and floated off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 silver	case
3	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 silver	amod
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 floated	cc
6	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Turned	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 floated	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	where	roles by
1	turn	participle	shining silver	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into silver=Trajectory
2	shine	gerund		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	float off	participle		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Became very cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Became	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 cold	advmod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	participle						cold property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Went up in flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Went	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 flames	case
4	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past						in flames	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flame=Attribute

Option 4

Went up in flames and both became young again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Went	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 flames	case
4	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Went	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Went	conj
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 became	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past						in flames	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flame=Attribute
2	become	past	both				again	young property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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