--- title: Whose whistle never got tired, bruv? — Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Whose whistle never got tired, bruv? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1037 «Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up hidden in the woods, climbs trees, and is secretly visited by his mother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1037-pg2892-part5/t12/) [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 Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1037-pg2892-part5/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up… Whose whistle never got tired, bruv? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** whistle · **What happens:** not get · **To what, where:** bruv This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1037 «Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up hidden in the woods, climbs trees, and is secretly visited by his mother» 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/1037-pg2892-part5/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t12:1 # text = Whose whistle never got tired, bruv? 1 Whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **get** | past | whistle | bruv | | | | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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} the throstle's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t12:o1:1 # text = the throstle's 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 throstle throstle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the throstle's whistle in the wood at dusk ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t12:o2:1 # text = the throstle's whistle in the wood at dusk 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 throstle throstle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whistle** | | the throstle | | | the wood at dusk | | | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the blackbird's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t12:o3:1 # text = the blackbird's 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 blackbird blackbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the thrush's song ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t12:o4:1 # text = the thrush's song 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thrush thrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** | | the thrush | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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