--- title: wagwan, what pulled the ale barrel, like oxen or horses? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowl… · tree and pragmatics description: wagwan, what pulled the ale barrel, like oxen or horses? Test 12 · ★ 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 the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1042-pg2892-part10/t12/) [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/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn… wagwan, what pulled the ale barrel, like oxen or horses? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wagwan · **What happens:** pull · **To what, where:** ale barrel This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t12:1 # text = wagwan, what pulled the ale barrel, like oxen or horses? 1 wagwan wagwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 ale ale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 barrel barrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | wagwan | the ale barrel | | | | like oxen or horses | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme | 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} a hundred horses ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t12:o1:1 # text = a hundred horses 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a hundred oxen and their herdsmen together ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t12:o2:1 # text = a hundred oxen and their herdsmen together 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 herdsmen herdsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a score of cows ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t12:o3:1 # text = a score of cows 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **score** | | | cows | | | | | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} a hundred oxen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t12:o4:1 # text = a hundred oxen 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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