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title: What's the wee shallow dish Fionn stares into? — Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: F… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the wee shallow dish Fionn stares into? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

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What's the wee shallow dish Fionn stares into?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wee shallow dish, Fionn · **What happens:** be, stare · **To what, where:** wee shallow dish

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t7:1
# text = What's the wee shallow dish Fionn stares into?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stares	stare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the wee shallow dish |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | present | Fionn | the wee shallow dish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A shallow golden dish filled with clear water from the well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t7:o1:1
# text = A shallow golden dish filled with clear water from the well
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | participle |  | a shallow golden dish *not said here* |  | the well |  | with clear water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A silver bowl of milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t7:o2:1
# text = A silver bowl of milk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bronze vessel brimming with the sacred water of the Boyne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t7:o3:1
# text = A bronze vessel brimming with the sacred water of the Boyne
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	brimming	brim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Boyne	Boyne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brim** | gerund | a bronze vessel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the sacred water of the Boyne | tree rules |

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

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A dish of clear water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1043-pg2892-part11:t7:o4:1
# text = A dish of clear water
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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