Exam question 1 · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…
Which creature did the King first release from the book in order to oppose the Dragon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: do, oppose · To what, where: King first release, book, Dragon
This is exam question 1 of lesson 635 «Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a Manticora, then a Hippogriff, and chases the Dragon to the Pebbly Waste» 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 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 release | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 release | compound |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 release | amod |
| 7 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 oppose | mark |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 in | fixed |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 oppose | mark |
| 14 | oppose | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 book | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dragon | det |
| 16 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 oppose | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which creature | the King first release | the book | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent release=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | oppose | to-infinitive | which creature not said here | the Dragon | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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 · ← Mova's choice
the Hippogriff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hippogriff | det |
| 2 | Hippogriff | hippogriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Manticora from the Royal library book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Manticora | det |
| 2 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 5 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 book | compound |
| 6 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 book | compound |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Manticora | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Manticora
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Manticora | det |
| 2 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the great golden Manticora of the old tales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Manticora | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Manticora | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Manticora | amod |
| 4 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tales | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tales | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tales | amod |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Manticora | 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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