Test 10 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

so was Cadmus rich or broke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rich	compound
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 broke	cc
6	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						rich property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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

he was a wandering exile with no money and no land to call his own

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exile	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exile	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 exile	det
4	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 exile	amod
5	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 money	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exile	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 land	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 money	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 call	mark
13	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exile	acl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 own	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	he	a wandering exile	with no money and no land	tree rules
3	call	to-infinitive		his own		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent own=Recipient

Option 2

he was a royal prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prince	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prince	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prince	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prince	amod
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a royal prince					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was poor and homeless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poor	cop
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 homeless	cc
5	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					poor property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 4

he had lost everything and had no home or family left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 lost	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 home	det
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 family	cc
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 home	conj
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 family	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	he	everything	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	have	past	he not said here	no home or family	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
3	leave	participle		family not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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