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title: Yer man can run a deer down, what does he haul it home by? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fion… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yer man can run a deer down, what does he haul it home by? Test 12 · ★ 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 question and o
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# Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

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Yer man can run a deer down, what does he haul it home by?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** run down, haul · **To what, where:** deer

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t12:1
# text = Yer man can run a deer down, what does he haul it home by?
1	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	haul	haul	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | can | Yer's man | a deer |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme deer=Trajectory |
| 2 | **haul** | present · do-support | man | deer |  |  |  | home *property* | 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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the antlers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t12:o1:1
# text = the antlers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the stubborn hide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t12:o2:1
# text = the stubborn hide
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hide	hide	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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the heavy hooves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t12:o3:1
# text = the heavy hooves
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hooves	hoove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the reluctant skull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t12:o4:1
# text = the reluctant skull
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	skull	skull	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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