Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun and Laili, part 12: the…

what was Laili's knife like, ngl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: knife

This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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 knife	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knife	cop
3	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Laili	case
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 ngl	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ngl	punct
8	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knife	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 knife	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Laili's knife				like ngl	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 · ← Mova's choice

tiny, then it turned into a golden spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turned	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 turned	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 spear	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spear	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spear	amod
9	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

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

Option 2

sharp, then blunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blunt	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 blunt	advmod
4	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sharp	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

silver and tiny, then massive enough for a Raja's neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tiny	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tiny	cc
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 massive	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 massive	advmod
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tiny	conj
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 massive	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 neck	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Raja	det
10	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 neck	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Raja	case
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tiny	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

tiny, then massive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 massive	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 massive	advmod
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 tiny	conj

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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