Exam question 3 · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…
To which location did the Hippogriff convey the King in order to draw the Dragon away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hippogriff · What happens: convey, draw away · To what, where: King, location, Dragon
This is exam question 3 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 location | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 convey | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hippogriff | det |
| 6 | Hippogriff | Hippogriff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | nsubj |
| 7 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | obj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 draw | mark |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 in | fixed |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 draw | mark |
| 13 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 convey | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dragon | det |
| 15 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 draw | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 draw | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 convey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | past · do-support | the Hippogriff | the King | which location | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Topic to location=Recipient | |||
| 2 | draw away | to-infinitive | the Hippogriff not said here | the Dragon | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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 hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hills | det |
| 2 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Pebbly Waste
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Waste | det |
| 2 | Pebbly | pebbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Waste | amod |
| 3 | Waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Royal Garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Garden | det |
| 2 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Garden | flat |
| 3 | Garden | Garden | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/635-pg23661-part3/e3/