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title: What song did his mum sing to get him off, fam? — Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: What song did his mum sing to get him off, fam? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

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What song did his mum sing to get him off, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** song · **What happens:** do, s, get off · **To what, where:** mum, song

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t9:1
# text = What song did his mum sing to get him off, fam?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	sing	s	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | song | song's mum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **s** | gerund | song *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get off** | to-infinitive | song *not said here* | song |  |  |  | fam *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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a lullaby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t9:o1:1
# text = a lullaby
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lullaby	lullaby	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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a soft old tune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t9:o2:1
# text = a soft old tune
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a sleepy song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t9:o3:1
# text = a sleepy song
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1037-pg2892-part5:t9:o4:1
# text = a song
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	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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