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title: sound, where did the teacher go off to while the fish was cooking? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowl… · tree and pragmatics
description: sound, where did the teacher go off to while the fish was cooking? Test 2 · ★ 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

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sound, where did the teacher go off to while the fish was cooking?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sound, fish · **What happens:** go off, cook

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t2:1
# text = sound, where did the teacher go off to while the fish was cooking?
1	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past · do-support | sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** | past · progressive | the fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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behind the bushes on the ridge above

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t2:o1:1
# text = behind the bushes on the ridge above
1	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	above	above	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
off up the hill behind the tall gorse bushes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t2:o2:1
# text = off up the hill behind the tall gorse bushes
1	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	gorse	gorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
behind the rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t2:o3:1
# text = behind the rocks
1	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
behind the bushes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t2:o4:1
# text = behind the bushes
1	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bushes	bush	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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