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title: Upon the sickness that destroyed the followers of Partholon, which i… — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon the sickness that destroyed the followers of Partholon, which individual alone survived? Exam question 1 of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

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Upon the sickness that destroyed the followers of Partholon, which individual alone survived?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** that · **What happens:** destroy, survive · **To what, where:** followers, individual

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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/1034-pg2892-part2/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e1:1
# text = Upon the sickness that destroyed the followers of Partholon, which individual alone survived?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	survived	survive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past | that | the followers of Partholon and which individual |  |  |  | upon the sickness | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent follower=Patient |
| 2 | **survive** | participle |  | which individual *not said here* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Nemed mac Agnoman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e1:o1:1
# text = Nemed mac Agnoman
1	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Agnoman	Agnoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nemed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e1:o2:1
# text = Nemed
1	Nemed	Nemed	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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Fintan mac Bochra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e1:o3:1
# text = Fintan mac Bochra
1	Fintan	Fintan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Bochra	Bochra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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Tuan mac Cairill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e1:o4:1
# text = Tuan mac Cairill
1	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Cairill	Cairill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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