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title: Proper skint, did Cadmus get any reward for killing it? — Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper skint, did Cadmus get any reward for killing it? Test 12 · ★ 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
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# Test 12 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

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Proper skint, did Cadmus get any reward for killing it?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t12:1
# text = Proper skint, did Cadmus get any reward for killing it?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | Cadmus | any reward |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | reward |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 new land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t12:o1:1
# text = a new land
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	land	land	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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a marriage to the king's daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t12:o2:1
# text = a marriage to the king's daughter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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his father's kingdom and land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t12:o3:1
# text = his father's kingdom and land
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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a new city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:534-pg22381-part40:t12:o4:1
# text = a new city
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	city	city	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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