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title: Was it a proper gang of heroes sitting there? — Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was it a proper gang of heroes sitting there? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1043 «Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defend Tara against Aillen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

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Was it a proper gang of heroes sitting there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** proper gang, heroes · **What happens:** be, sit · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1043 «Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defend Tara against Aillen» 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/1043-pg2892-part11/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t11:1
# text = Was it a proper gang of heroes sitting there?
1	Was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a proper gang of heroes | it |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | heroes *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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The nobles and champions of the Fianna, all sworn to Conn's service

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t11:o1:1
# text = The nobles and champions of the Fianna, all sworn to Conn's service
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | participle · passive | the nobles and champions of the Fianna *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **service** |  | Conn |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The nobles and champions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t11:o2:1
# text = The nobles and champions
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The lords and warriors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t11:o3:1
# text = The lords and warriors
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The kings, the bards, the druids and the champions of all the provinces

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t11:o4:1
# text = The kings, the bards, the druids and the champions of all the provinces
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	druids	druid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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