---
title: Yer man Finnian, what was he doing sitting outside the door? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yer man Finnian, what was he doing sitting outside the door? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1033 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1: Finnian forces his way into a pagan lord's house and wins him over» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1033-pg2892-part1/t1/)

<!-- 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/) / [Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan M…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1033-pg2892-part1/) / t1

# Test 1 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yer man Finnian, what was he doing sitting outside the door?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** do, sit · **To what, where:** door

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1033 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1: Finnian forces his way into a pagan lord's house and wins him over» 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/1033-pg2892-part1/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t1:1
# text = Yer man Finnian, what was he doing sitting outside the door?
1	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · progressive | Yer's man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Yer's man *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=Location |

<!-- .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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sitting quiet and fasting, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t1:o1:1
# text = Sitting quiet and fasting, like
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sitting there in a deep trance, staring down at the ground for hours on end

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t1:o2:1
# text = Sitting there in a deep trance, staring down at the ground for hours on end
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | a deep trance; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=Location |
| 2 | **stare down** | gerund |  |  |  |  | on end; hour | at the ground; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Meditating on the stones as the lord's men peered through the spy-holes above

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t1:o3:1
# text = Meditating on the stones as the lord's men peered through the spy-holes above
1	Meditating	meditate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	above	above	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meditate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on the stones | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on stone=Topic |
| 2 | **peer** | past | the lord's men |  |  |  |  | through the spy holes; above *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Staring at the ground in a trance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t1:o4:1
# text = Staring at the ground in a trance
1	Staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in a trance; at the ground | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme |

<!-- 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: [Andersen, The Story of the Year, part…, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1032-pg27200-part243/e4/)
- next →: [Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan M…, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1033-pg2892-part1/t2/)
- ↑ back to [Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1: Finnian forces his way into a pagan lord's house and wins him over](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1033-pg2892-part1/)