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title: Bro, how did the sickness hit Partholon's lot? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how did the sickness hit Partholon's lot? Test 3 · ★ 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 wa
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# Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

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Bro, how did the sickness hit Partholon's lot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, hit · **To what, where:** sickness, lot

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t3:1
# text = Bro, how did the sickness hit Partholon's lot?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the sickness |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hit** | past | Bro | Partholon's lot |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lot=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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out of nowhere, one night to morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t3:o1:1
# text = out of nowhere, one night to morning
1	out	out	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a fever over a few weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t3:o2:1
# text = a fever over a few weeks
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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from a plague in spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t3:o3:1
# text = from a plague in spring
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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slowly, bit by bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t3:o4:1
# text = slowly, bit by bit
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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