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title: Which city did they all end up building, innit? — Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which city did they all end up building, innit? Test 10 · ★ 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 question and of 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

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Which city did they all end up building, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** city, they · **What happens:** do, end up, innit · **To what, where:** building

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This is test 10 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/534-pg22381-part40/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t10:1
# text = Which city did they all end up building, innit?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which city |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end up** | present | they | building |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient building=Result |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Sparta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t10:o1:1
# text = Sparta
1	Sparta	sparta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the city of Thebes on the Ismenus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t10:o2:1
# text = the city of Thebes on the Ismenus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Ismenus	Ismenus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Thebes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t10:o3:1
# text = Thebes
1	Thebes	thebe	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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the new walled town of Cadmea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t10:o4:1
# text = the new walled town of Cadmea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walled	wall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cadmea	Cadmea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wall** | past | the new | town of Cadmea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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