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title: Right, who carried poor Finnian into the house? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Right, who carried poor Finnian into the house? Test 9 · ★ 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 of the questi
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

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Right, who carried poor Finnian into the house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** poor Finnian, house

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t9:1
# text = Right, who carried poor Finnian into the house?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past |  | poor Finnian |  | the house |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finnian=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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Four of his men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t9:o1:1
# text = Four of his men
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Two of the servants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t9:o2:1
# text = Two of the servants
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The lord and two of his servants together, carefully

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t9:o3:1
# text = The lord and two of his servants together, carefully
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The old steward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1033-pg2892-part1:t9:o4:1
# text = The old steward
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steward	steward	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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