Test 3 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…
Innit, what sort of beast is the Manticora?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sort · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: Manticora, beast
This is test 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. 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Manticora | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 sort | det |
| 4 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Manticora | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beast | case |
| 6 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sort | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Manticora | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Manticora | det |
| 9 | Manticora | Manticora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Innit | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | what sort of beast | the Manticora | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sort | beast | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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
a big yellow lion-man with a scorpion tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 lion | punct |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tail | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tail | det |
| 9 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | compound |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a yellow lion-man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 lion | punct |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a yellow lion-man with a man's face and a tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 lion | punct |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 man | case |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tail | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tail | det |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a red dragon-man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | 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.
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