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title: Wait, what had he forgotten about being human? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what had he forgotten about being human? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

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Wait, what had he forgotten about being human?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, he · **What happens:** wait, forget, be

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t8:1
# text = Wait, what had he forgotten about being human?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | human *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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all that a man had known

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t8:o1:1
# text = all that a man had known
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | all man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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every prayer and hymn his mother taught him as a boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t8:o2:1
# text = every prayer and hymn his mother taught him as a boy
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hymn	hymn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hymn** | infinitive | every prayer *not said here* | prayer's mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | every prayer |  | him *= he* |  |  | as a boy | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the names of his kin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t8:o3:1
# text = the names of his kin
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  |  | his kin |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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how to sail a ship across the great and dangerous sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t8:o4:1
# text = how to sail a ship across the great and dangerous sea
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	sail	sail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | to-infinitive |  | a ship |  | the great sea |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme across sea=Trajectory |

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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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