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title: Bro, what did the poets get from their great schools? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the poets get from their great schools? Test 12 · ★ 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 th
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# Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio…

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Bro, what did the poets get from their great schools?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poets · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** great schools

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t12:1
# text = Bro, what did the poets get from their great schools?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | the poets |  |  | poets's great schools |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from school=Destination |

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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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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t12:o1:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Tricks of rhyme

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t12:o2:1
# text = Tricks of rhyme
1	Tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** |  |  | rhyme |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Old tales of war

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t12:o3:1
# text = Old tales of war
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** |  | war |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Songs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t12:o4:1
# text = Songs
1	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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