--- title: Yo, who was the holy man just chatting away? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Yo, who was the holy man just chatting away? Test 2 · ★ 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 of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1034-pg2892-part2/t2/) [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, Tuan mac Cairill, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1034-pg2892-part2/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely… Yo, who was the holy man just chatting away? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** holy man · **What happens:** be, chat away · **To what, where:** holy man This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t2:1 # text = Yo, who was the holy man just chatting away? 1 Yo yo INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 chatting chat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the holy man | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **chat away** *speech: other* | gerund | the holy man *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 {#o1} Tuan, the old hermit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t2:o1:1 # text = Tuan, the old hermit 1 Tuan Tuan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nemed, the sea captain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t2:o2:1 # text = Nemed, the sea captain 1 Nemed Nemed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Finnian, the saint dude ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t2:o3:1 # text = Finnian, the saint dude 1 Finnian Finnian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 saint saint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Tuan, the stag man who was just chatting after the storm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t2:o4:1 # text = Tuan, the stag man who was just chatting after the storm 1 Tuan Tuan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 chatting chat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chat** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the stag man | | | | after the storm | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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