Exam question 3 · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

What did Cadmus propose that the settlers should undertake upon arrival?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cadmus, settlers · What happens: propose, undertake

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 propose	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 propose	aux
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 propose	nsubj
4	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 undertake	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 settlers	det
7	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 undertake	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 undertake	aux
9	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 propose	ccomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 arrival	case
11	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undertake	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	Cadmus						tree rules
2	undertake	should	the settlers					upon arrival	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

to build walls around the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 build	mark
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obj
4	around	around	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		walls		the town			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to fish in the nearby sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	2 fish	case
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
5	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sea	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	nmod

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

Option 3

to farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 farm	mark
2	farm	farm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	farm	to-infinitive							vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to cultivate the neighbouring soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 cultivate	mark
2	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soil	det
4	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soil	compound
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cultivate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cultivate	to-infinitive		the neighbouring soil					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Product

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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