--- title: Cringe, what's so special about the spear? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds o… · tree and pragmatics description: Cringe, what's so special about the spear? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1039 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fionn is spared by the robber Fiacuil and carried off to his marsh den» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1039-pg2892-part7/t10/) [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 Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1039-pg2892-part7/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio… Cringe, what's so special about the spear? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cringe · **What happens:** be This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1039 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fionn is spared by the robber Fiacuil and carried off to his marsh den» 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/1039-pg2892-part7/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t10:1 # text = Cringe, what's so special about the spear? 1 Cringe cringe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Cringe | | | | | about the spear; special *property* | tree rules | 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} Silver studs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t10:o1:1 # text = Silver studs 1 Silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 studs stud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Gold rivets ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t10:o2:1 # text = Gold rivets 1 Gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rivets rivet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Its ability to cut through any shield or bone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t10:o3:1 # text = Its ability to cut through any shield or bone 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ability ability NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | to-infinitive | Its ability | | | | | through any shield or bone | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through shield=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Its thirty gold rivets from Arabia and faery ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t10:o4:1 # text = Its thirty gold rivets from Arabia and faery 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 rivets rivet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 faery faery NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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