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title: Did Cadmus and his crew ever stop looking? — Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Cadmus and his crew ever stop looking? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

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Did Cadmus and his crew ever stop looking?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crew · **What happens:** do, stop, look · **To what, where:** Cadmus

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2057-pg976-part16/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t10:1
# text = Did Cadmus and his crew ever stop looking?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadmus=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive | Cadmus's crew |  |  |  | ever |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Cadmus's crew *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nope, they stopped at Crete

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t10:o1:1
# text = Nope, they stopped at Crete
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | they |  |  | Crete |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crete=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Nope, they never gave up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t10:o2:1
# text = Nope, they never gave up
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give up** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, they quit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t10:o3:1
# text = Nah, they quit
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	quit	quit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yep, they turned back soon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t10:o4:1
# text = Yep, they turned back soon
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | they |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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**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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