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title: Ah no, why did Fionn leave the boys' lake? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fion… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah no, why did Fionn leave the boys' lake? Test 9 · ★ 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 of each option; Mo
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

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Ah no, why did Fionn leave the boys' lake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** lake

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t9:1
# text = Ah no, why did Fionn leave the boys' lake?
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · do-support | Fionn | the boys's lake |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme |

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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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they turned against him and plotted his death in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t9:o1:1
# text = they turned against him and plotted his death in the dark
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	plotted	plot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | they |  |  |  |  | against him *= he* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **plot** | past | they *not said here* | his death |  | the dark |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent death=Theme in dark=Destination |
| 3 | **die** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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they turned against him after he beat them at every game they played

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t9:o2:1
# text = they turned against him after he beat them at every game they played
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | they |  |  |  |  | against him *= he* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **beat** | past | he | them *= they* |  | every game |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | they | every game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they turned against him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t9:o3:1
# text = they turned against him
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | they |  |  |  |  | against him *= he* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the king had banished him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1040-pg2892-part8:t9:o4:1
# text = the king had banished him
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **banish** | past · perfect | the king | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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