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title: At which lake did Fionn enter the service of a king after leaving th… — Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fion… · tree and pragmatics
description: At which lake did Fionn enter the service of a king after leaving the boys? Exam question 3 of lesson 1040 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is hunted, leaves the boys' lake and serves a king» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

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At which lake did Fionn enter the service of a king after leaving the boys?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** enter, leave, service · **To what, where:** service, lake, boys, king

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1040 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is hunted, leaves the boys' lake and serves a king» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1040-pg2892-part8/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:e3:1
# text = At which lake did Fionn enter the service of a king after leaving the boys?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
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	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past · do-support | Fionn | the service of a king |  | which lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | Fionn *not said here* | the boys |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 3 | **service** |  |  | a king |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Loch Le'in beyond the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:e3:o1:1
# text = Loch Le'in beyond the hills
1	Loch	Loch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Le'in	Le'in	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lock Lean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:e3:o2:1
# text = Lock Lean
1	Lock	lock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Lean	Lean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | imperative | you *not said here* | Lean |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lean=Patient |

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

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Lock Le'in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:e3:o3:1
# text = Lock Le'in
1	Lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Le'in	Le'in	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The lake of the king of Finntraigh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:e3:o4:1
# text = The lake of the king of Finntraigh
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Finntraigh	Finntraigh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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