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title: To what animal did the oracle assign the role of guide to Cadmus? — A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what animal did the oracle assign the role of guide to Cadmus? Exam question 1 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 1 · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

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To what animal did the oracle assign the role of guide to Cadmus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** oracle · **What happens:** assign · **To what, where:** role, Cadmus

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This is exam question 1 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, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/2059-pg976-part18/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e1:1
# text = To what animal did the oracle assign the role of guide to Cadmus?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obl	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	assign	assign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assign** | past · do-support | the oracle | the role of guide | Cadmus |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent role=Theme to what=Goal |

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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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a sacred brindled cow from the herds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e1:o1:1
# text = a sacred brindled cow from the herds
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	brindled	brindled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a golden eagle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e1:o2:1
# text = a golden eagle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a white horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e1:o3:1
# text = a white horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the brindled cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e1:o4:1
# text = the brindled cow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brindled	brindled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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