Test 12 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

Proper skint, did Cadmus get any reward for killing it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: get, kill · To what, where: reward

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 534 «Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Cadmus follows a heifer, kills a dragon and sows its teeth» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 skint	advmod
2	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 skint	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 reward	det
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 killing	mark
10	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 get	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 killing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Cadmus	any reward					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus
2	kill	gerund	Cadmus not said here	reward					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

a new land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 land	amod
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a marriage to the king's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 marriage	det
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 daughter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marriage	nmod

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

Option 3

his father's kingdom and land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kingdom	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 land	cc
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kingdom	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a new city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 city	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 city	amod
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

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