---
title: What did Cadmus propose that the settlers should undertake upon arri… — A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Cadmus propose that the settlers should undertake upon arrival? Exam question 3 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 prag
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2059-pg976-part18/e3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2059-pg976-part18/) / e3

# Exam question 3 · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What did Cadmus propose that the settlers should undertake upon arrival?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cadmus, settlers · **What happens:** propose, undertake

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e3:1
# text = What did Cadmus propose that the settlers should undertake upon arrival?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	propose	propose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past · do-support | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **undertake** | should | the settlers |  |  |  |  | upon arrival | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to build walls around the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e3:o1:1
# text = to build walls around the town
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | walls |  | the town |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to fish in the nearby sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e3:o2:1
# text = to fish in the nearby sea
1	to	to	ADP	TO	_	2	case	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e3:o3:1
# text = to farm
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	farm	farm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **farm** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to cultivate the neighbouring soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:e3:o4:1
# text = to cultivate the neighbouring soil
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cultivate** | to-infinitive |  | the neighbouring soil |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Product |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, par…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2059-pg976-part18/e2/)
- next →: [A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, par…, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2059-pg976-part18/e4/)
- ↑ back to [A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2059-pg976-part18/)