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title: Was Aillen's grudge a serious thing or just a bit of craic? — Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was Aillen's grudge a serious thing or just a bit of craic? Test 3 · ★ 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 cho
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

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Was Aillen's grudge a serious thing or just a bit of craic?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** grudge

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t3:1
# text = Was Aillen's grudge a serious thing or just a bit of craic?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	grudge	grudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	craic	craic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Aillen's grudge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A serious revenge grudge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t3:o1:1
# text = A serious revenge grudge
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	grudge	grudge	NOUN	NN	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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A grudge of revenge held since the battle of Moytura and never forgotten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t3:o2:1
# text = A grudge of revenge held since the battle of Moytura and never forgotten
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grudge	grudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Moytura	Moytura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle · passive |  | a grudge of revenge |  |  | since the battle of Moytura |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grudge** |  | revenge |  |  |  |  |  | nom grudge «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **battle** |  |  | Moytura |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A deadly old quarrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t3:o3:1
# text = A deadly old quarrel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A serious grudge that Aillen would take revenge for at Samhain each year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t3:o4:1
# text = A serious grudge that Aillen would take revenge for at Samhain each year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grudge	grudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | Aillen | a serious grudge |  |  | year | for Samhain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme revenge=Destination |

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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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