Exam question 4 · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…
Which qualities did the companions attribute to Cadmus, fitting him to govern?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: qualities · What happens: do, fit, govern · To what, where: companions attribute, Cadmus
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 qualities | det |
| 2 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attribute | det |
| 5 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attribute | compound |
| 6 | attribute | attribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Cadmus | case |
| 8 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 attribute | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fitting | punct |
| 10 | fitting | fit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fitting | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 govern | mark |
| 13 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fitting | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which qualities | the companions attribute | to Cadmus | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fit | gerund | which qualities not said here | Cadmus | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | govern | to-infinitive | which qualities not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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
royal blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blood | amod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
wisdom and strength
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 strength | cc |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wisdom | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a noble name and kind words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 2 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 words | cc |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 name | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the royal blood and heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blood | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blood | amod |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heart | cc |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blood | conj |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2059-pg976-part18/e4/