Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives t…

Lame, why did Dantal lock them up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dantal · What happens: lock up · To what, where: them

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1829 «Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives the wicked Raja, and the couple escape to King Dantal's palace» 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	Lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lock	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lock	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lock	aux
5	Dantal	Dantal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lock	nsubj
6	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lame	acl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lock	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 lock	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lame	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	past · do-support	Dantal	them = they					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

cuz Laili was too fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fine	nsubj
2	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 cuz	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cuz Laili was too fine and the king got jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fine	nsubj
2	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 cuz	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	conj
10	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					fine property	tree rules
2	get	past	the king					jealous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

cuz they stole stuff, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stole	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 stole	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	cuz	stuff					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=Theme

Option 4

cuz Majnun was too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 loud	nsubj
2	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 cuz	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					loud property	tree rules

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