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title: Which animal form did Tuan assume in his dream, and which form did h… — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal form did Tuan assume in his dream, and which form did he possess upon awakening? Exam question 4 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 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

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Which animal form did Tuan assume in his dream, and which form did he possess upon awakening?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal form, form, Tuan · **What happens:** assume, form, possess, awaken, dream · **To what, where:** dream

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e4:1
# text = Which animal form did Tuan assume in his dream, and which form did he possess upon awakening?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	awakening	awaken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | past · do-support | animal form |  |  | Tuan's dream |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **form** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** | past · do-support | form |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **awaken** | gerund | form *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dream** |  | Tuan |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e4:o1:1
# text = a wolf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	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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an owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e4:o2:1
# text = an owl
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	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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a fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e4:o3:1
# text = a fox
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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 stag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:e4:o4:1
# text = a stag
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	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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