Test 7 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

yo, what did Cadmus do when she ran off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: do, run off

This is test 7 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 ran	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Cadmus						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	run off	past	Cadmus						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

he shouted at the sky

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	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	he			the sky			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he chased her, no luck

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	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 luck	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 luck	det
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	he	her = she				no luck obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

he chased her for hours through the woods but never caught her

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	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 caught	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 caught	advmod
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	he	her = she		the woods	hour		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme through wood=Trajectory
2	not catch	past	he not said here	her = she					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

he chased her across the valley, but she simply kept running on

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	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 valley	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 valley	det
6	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
10	simply	simply	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj
12	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 running	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chase	past	he	her = she	the valley		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme across valley=Trajectory
2	keep	past	she			simply property	tree rules
3	run on	gerund	she not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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