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title: Ugh, what was the deal with the tree and the no sneezing rule? — Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ugh, what was the deal with the tree and the no sneezing rule? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1038 «Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn trains hard, learns to swim, and is left sneezing in a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

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Ugh, what was the deal with the tree and the no sneezing rule?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deal

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1038 «Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn trains hard, learns to swim, and is left sneezing in a tree» 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/1038-pg2892-part6/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t10:1
# text = Ugh, what was the deal with the tree and the no sneezing rule?
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the deal and the sneezing rule |  |  |  | with the tree | 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 {#o1}

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He had to sit in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t10:o1:1
# text = He had to sit in it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | it |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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He had to sit in it and not cough or whistle or sneeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t10:o2:1
# text = He had to sit in it and not cough or whistle or sneeze
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	whistle	whistle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | it |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
| 3 | **not** **cough** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whistle** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sneeze** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He had to stay in it till dawn and be quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t10:o3:1
# text = He had to stay in it till dawn and be quiet
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | it | dawn |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He had to hide in it and never sing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t10:o4:1
# text = He had to hide in it and never sing at all
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | it |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
| 3 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

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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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