--- title: Indicate the season at which the feast of Tara was convened and the… — Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowl… · tree and pragmatics description: Indicate the season at which the feast of Tara was convened and the festival to which it was connected. Exam question 4 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, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1042-pg2892-part10/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1042-pg2892-part10/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn… Indicate the season at which the feast of Tara was convened and the festival to which it was connected. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** indicate, convene, connect · **To what, where:** feast This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e4:1 # text = Indicate the season at which the feast of Tara was convened and the festival to which it was connected. 1 Indicate indicate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Tara Tara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 convened convene VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 connected connect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **indicate** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | season | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **convene** | past · passive | | the feast of Tara | | | at the season | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **connect** | past · passive | | feast | | | | to the festival | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient | 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} Imbolc-tide ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e4:o1:1 # text = Imbolc-tide 1 Imbolc Imbolc PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Samhain-tide ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e4:o2:1 # text = Samhain-tide 1 Samhain Samhain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} harvest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e4:o3:1 # text = harvest 1 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Bealtaine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:e4:o4:1 # text = Bealtaine 1 Bealtaine Bealtaine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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