Exam question 2 · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…

What was the principal reason the Dragon was unable to pursue the Hippogriff successfully?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: be, pursue · To what, where: principal reason, Hippogriff

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dragon	det
7	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 unable	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unable	cop
9	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pursue	mark
11	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unable	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hippogriff	det
13	Hippogriff	hippogriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pursue	obj
14	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	11 pursue	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal reason		tree rules
2	is	past	the Dragon	the principal reason not said here	unable property	tree rules
3	pursue	to-infinitive	the Dragon not said here	the Hippogriff	successfully property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippogriff=Theme

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 right answer

the inferiority of his wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inferiority	det
2	inferiority	inferiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wings	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inferiority	nmod

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

Option 2

the fact that the inferiority of his wings was obvious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 obvious	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 inferiority	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 inferiority	det
5	inferiority	inferiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fact	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wings	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wings	nmod:poss
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 inferiority	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 obvious	cop
10	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fact the inferiority of his wings					obvious property	tree rules

Option 3

the inferiority of his wings compared to the Hippogriff's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inferiority	det
2	inferiority	inferiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wings	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inferiority	nmod
6	compared	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Hippogriff	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hippogriff	det
9	Hippogriff	Hippogriff	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 compared	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Hippogriff	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	past	the inferiority of inferiority's wings					to the Hippogriff	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the shortness of his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shortness	det
2	shortness	shortness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shortness	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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