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title: Real talk, whose aunt was Bovmall? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, whose aunt was Bovmall? Test 8 · ★ 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 and of ea
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# Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio…

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Real talk, whose aunt was Bovmall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** aunt · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Bovmall

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t8:1
# text = Real talk, whose aunt was Bovmall?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Bovmall	Bovmall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bovmall's aunt | Bovmall |  |  |  |  | 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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Dael's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t8:o1:1
# text = Dael's
1	Dael	Dael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bran's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t8:o2:1
# text = Bran's
1	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fionn's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t8:o3:1
# text = Fionn's
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Caoilte's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1039-pg2892-part7:t8:o4:1
# text = Caoilte's
1	Caoilte	Caoilte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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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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