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title: that spear had thirty rivets of gold innit — Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man f… · tree and pragmatics
description: that spear had thirty rivets of gold innit Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1044 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 12: Fionn waits alone in the dark, meets his old friend Fiacuil, and gets ready for the Man of the Shi'» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Test 7 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

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that spear had thirty rivets of gold innit

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** spear · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** thirty rivets

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1044 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 12: Fionn waits alone in the dark, meets his old friend Fiacuil, and gets ready for the Man of the Shi'» 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/1044-pg2892-part12/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t7:1
# text = that spear had thirty rivets of gold innit
1	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	rivets	rivet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | that spear | thirty rivets of gold innit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=Patient |

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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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yeah it looked mint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t7:o1:1
# text = yeah it looked mint
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | it | mint |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mint=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah it was pure gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t7:o2:1
# text = yeah it was pure gold
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | pure gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t7:o3:1
# text = nah
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t7:o4:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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