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title: Lowkey, how did Fionn get out of being killed? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, how did Fionn get out of being killed? Test 6 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio…

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Lowkey, how did Fionn get out of being killed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** get out, kill

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t6:1
# text = Lowkey, how did Fionn get out of being killed?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | past · do-support | Lowkey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund · passive | Lowkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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Begged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t6:o1:1
# text = Begged
1	Begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Gave his name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t6:o2:1
# text = Gave his name
1	Gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | his name |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **name** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Told a lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t6:o3:1
# text = Told a lie
1	Told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | a lie |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ran away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t6:o4:1
# text = Ran away
1	Ran	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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