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title: Was Goll Mor a proper nasty one or what? — Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was Goll Mor a proper nasty one or what? Test 4 · ★ 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 question and of each o
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

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Was Goll Mor a proper nasty one or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Goll

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t4:1
# text = Was Goll Mor a proper nasty one or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Goll |  |  |  |  | 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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Nah, he was laughing loads, so people forgave him for the butchering

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t4:o1:1
# text = Nah, he was laughing loads, so people forgave him for the butchering
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	butchering	butchering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past · progressive | he | loads |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 2 | **forgive** | past | people | him *= he* |  |  |  | for the butchering | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for butchering=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, proper nasty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, proper nasty
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, he was alright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t4:o3:1
# text = Nah, he was alright
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	alright	alright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | alright *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah he was mental, but his laughing made folks forget the killing lately

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1038-pg2892-part6:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah he was mental, but his laughing made folks forget the killing lately
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	laughing	laughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | lately, mental *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | his laughing | folks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | infinitive | folks *not said here* | the killing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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