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title: Which king dispatched Cadmus in search of his daughter? — Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which king dispatched Cadmus in search of his daughter? Exam question 4 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Exam question 4 · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

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Which king dispatched Cadmus in search of his daughter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** dispatch, search · **To what, where:** Cadmus, search, daughter

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This is exam question 4 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, 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/534-pg22381-part40/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:e4:1
# text = Which king dispatched Cadmus in search of his daughter?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispatch** | past | which king | Cadmus |  | search of king's daughter |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadmus=Patient |
| 2 | **search** |  |  | king's daughter |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Phoenix

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:e4:o1:1
# text = Phoenix
1	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Agenor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:e4:o2:1
# text = Agenor
1	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	NNP	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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Minos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:e4:o3:1
# text = Minos
1	Minos	mino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Priam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:e4:o4:1
# text = Priam
1	Priam	priam	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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