Test 11 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…

Ngl, why couldn't the Dragon catch the Hippogriff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: not catch · To what, where: Hippogriff

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 catch	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dragon	det
7	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 catch	nsubj
8	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Hippogriff	det
10	Hippogriff	Hippogriff	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 catch	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	could	the Dragon	the Hippogriff					vn get-13.5.1 «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

it was slower and its wings were not so strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slower	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slower	cop
3	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strong	cc
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wings	nmod:poss
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 strong	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 strong	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slower	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					slow property	tree rules
2	not is	past	its wings					strong property	tree rules

Option 2

its wings were not so strong as the Hippogriff's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strong	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 strong	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 Hippogriff	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hippogriff	det
9	Hippogriff	Hippogriff	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 strong	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Hippogriff	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	its wings					as the Hippogriff; strong property	tree rules

Option 3

its tail was far too short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 short	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its tail					far, short property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

its wings were not so strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strong	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 strong	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	its wings					strong property	tree rules

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