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title: Yo, how many games did yer man Fionn bang the king out of in a row? — Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how many games did yer man Fionn bang the king out of in a row? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1041 «Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge, part 9: Fionn beats the king at chess, is unmasked, and goes to learn from Finegas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Test 1 · ★ · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

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Yo, how many games did yer man Fionn bang the king out of in a row?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many games, man · **What happens:** do, bang · **To what, where:** king, row

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1041 «Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge, part 9: Fionn beats the king at chess, is unmasked, and goes to learn from Finegas» 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/1041-pg2892-part9/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1041-pg2892-part9:t1:1
# text = Yo, how many games did yer man Fionn bang the king out of in a row?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	bang	bang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many games |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bang** | present | yer's man | the king |  | a row |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent king=Theme out row=Trajectory |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1041-pg2892-part9:t1:o1:1
# text = three
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1041-pg2892-part9:t1:o2:1
# text = seven
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
twenty-seven times, in a row

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1041-pg2892-part9:t1:o3:1
# text = twenty-seven times, in a row
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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seventeen, bro, every single one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1041-pg2892-part9:t1:o4:1
# text = seventeen, bro, every single one
1	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

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