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title: Identify the character who obtained the Salmon of Knowledge and who… — Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the character who obtained the Salmon of Knowledge and who thereafter concealed his prior prophetic error. Exam question 1 of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» of the books course of Mova's primary s
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# Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

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Identify the character who obtained the Salmon of Knowledge and who thereafter concealed his prior prophetic error.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, character, Knowledge · **What happens:** identify, obtain, conceal, err · **To what, where:** character, Salmon, prior prophetic error

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» 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/1042-pg2892-part10/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e1:1
# text = Identify the character who obtained the Salmon of Knowledge and who thereafter concealed his prior prophetic error.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the character |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme |
| 2 | **obtain** | past | the character | the Salmon of Knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme |
| 3 | **conceal** | past |  | Knowledge's prior prophetic error |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent error=Patient |
| 4 | **err** |  | Knowledge |  |  |  |  |  | nom error «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Cormac

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e1:o1:1
# text = Cormac
1	Cormac	Cormac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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 old druid of the fishing pool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e1:o2:1
# text = the old druid of the fishing pool
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	druid	druid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the poet who was his teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e1:o3:1
# text = the poet who was his teacher
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the poet | his teacher |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Finegas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e1:o4:1
# text = Finegas
1	Finegas	finega	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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