Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…

so why did Cadmus teach the kids their ABCs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: teach · To what, where: kids

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» 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	_	5 teach	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 teach	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 teach	aux
4	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 teach	nsubj
5	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teach	obj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ABCs	nmod:poss
9	ABCs	abc	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kids	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 teach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · do-support	Cadmus		the kids and kids's ABCs				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

so the dragon meanness wouldn't rub off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	7 rub	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meanness	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meanness	compound
4	meanness	meanness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rub	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 rub	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 rub	advmod
7	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 rub	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rub off	would	the dragon meanness						vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 2

so the palace guards would never have to teach them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	compound
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 teach	mark
9	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 teach	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	would	the palace guards						tree rules
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	the palace guards not said here		guards = guard				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3

so the dragon meanness from their fathers wouldn't rub off on them as they grew

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	10 rub	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meanness	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meanness	compound
4	meanness	meanness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rub	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 fathers	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fathers	nmod:poss
7	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meanness	nmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rub	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 rub	advmod
10	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 rub	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rub	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 grew	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rub	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rub off	would	the dragon meanness from their fathers					on fathers = father	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on they=Destination
2	grow	past	fathers = father						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

so they'd learn the gods' laws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gods	det
6	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laws	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 gods	case
8	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	they	the gods's laws					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic

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