Test 4 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…

Proper cringe, how did the Manticora react when Lionel pushed it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Manticora, Lionel · What happens: react, push · To what, where: Manticora

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cringe	amod
2	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 react	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 react	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 react	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Manticora	det
7	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 react	nsubj
8	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cringe	acl:relcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 pushed	advmod
10	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pushed	nsubj
11	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 react	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pushed	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cringe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	react	past · do-support	the Manticora						vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	push	past	Lionel	Manticora					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

it legged it

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	2 legged	nsubj
2	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	it	it					tree rules

Option 2

it legged it straight off round the corner

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	2 legged	nsubj
2	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 off	advmod
5	off	off	ADV	_	2 legged	advmod
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 legged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	it	it				round the corner; off property	tree rules

Option 3

it did a runner

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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 runner	det
4	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	it	a runner					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality

Option 4

it went flying off down the road as fast as it could

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flying	compound:prt
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flying	obl
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it					fast property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly off	gerund				the road			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory

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