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title: Ah here, what did the robber tell Fionn to keep between his teeth? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fion… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah here, what did the robber tell Fionn to keep between his teeth? Test 1 · ★ 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 of the questio
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# Test 1 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

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Ah here, what did the robber tell Fionn to keep between his teeth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** robber · **What happens:** tell, keep · **To what, where:** Fionn, teeth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t1:1
# text = Ah here, what did the robber tell Fionn to keep between his teeth?
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the robber |  | Fionn | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the robber *not said here* |  |  | robber's teeth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent between tooth=Location |

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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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a spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t1:o1:1
# text = a spear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spear	spear	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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a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t1:o2:1
# text = a knife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a long iron hunting knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t1:o3:1
# text = a long iron hunting knife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a sharp bronze blade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t1:o4:1
# text = a sharp bronze blade
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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