Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Laili and Majnun, part 11: Laili leave…

What did the powder do to her, blud?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: powder · What happens: do · To what, where: blud, her

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 powder	det
4	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blud	punct
9	blud	blud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the powder	blud	her = she				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Made her a pile of ash on the palace floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pile	det
4	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ash	case
6	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pile	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floor	compound
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		a pile of ash	her = she	the palace floor			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary pile=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Turned her into a small white dog that barked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turned	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 dog	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dog	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dog	amod
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 barked	nsubj
9	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dog	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		her = she				into a small white dog result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Theme into dog=Result
2	bark	past	a small white dog						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Made her a pile of ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pile	det
4	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ash	case
6	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		a pile of ash	her = she				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary pile=Product

Option 4

Turned her into dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turned	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 dust	case
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1827-pg7128-part11/t9/