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title: Innit, what sort of beast is the Manticora? — Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, what sort of beast is the Manticora? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 3 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…

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Innit, what sort of beast is the Manticora?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sort · **What happens:** be, sort · **To what, where:** Manticora, beast

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/635-pg23661-part3/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t3:1
# text = Innit, what sort of beast is the Manticora?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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a big yellow lion-man with a scorpion tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t3:o1:1
# text = a big yellow lion-man with a scorpion tail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a yellow lion-man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t3:o2:1
# text = a yellow lion-man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a yellow lion-man with a man's face and a tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t3:o3:1
# text = a yellow lion-man with a man's face and a tail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a red dragon-man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:635-pg23661-part3:t3:o4:1
# text = a red dragon-man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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