Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun and Laili, part 12: the…
Which statement correctly identifies the substance Laili used to restore Majnun to life?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement, Laili · What happens: identify, use, restore · To what, where: substance, Majnun, life
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1828 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun and Laili, part 12: the old woman proves she is Laili, and Laili saves Majnun's life after the wicked Raja kills him» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 statement | det |
| 2 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identifies | nsubj |
| 3 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 4 identifies | advmod |
| 4 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 substance | det |
| 6 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identifies | obj |
| 7 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 used | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 substance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 restore | mark |
| 10 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | xcomp |
| 11 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present | which statement | the substance | correctly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | past | Laili | the substance not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent substance=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | restore | to-infinitive | Laili not said here | Majnun | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent majnun=Theme to life=Recipient |
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
Water from the garden well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 garden | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Water | nmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Water | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Herbs ground by the fakir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ground | compound |
| 2 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 fakir | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fakir | det |
| 5 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ground | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Blood drawn from her own finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Blood | acl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 finger | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 finger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 finger | amod |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | Blood not said here | from her own finger | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from finger=Co-Patient |
Option 4
Milk from a cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 cow | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cow | det |
| 4 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Milk | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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