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title: mate did fionn get paid for helping — Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man f… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate did fionn get paid for helping Test 8 · ★ 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 tree and 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

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mate did fionn get paid for helping

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** do, pay · **To what, where:** fionn

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t8:1
# text = mate did fionn get paid for helping
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fionn	fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	helping	helping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | mate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive · passive |  | fionn |  |  |  | for helping | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for helping=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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yeah a third and a seat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t8:o1:1
# text = yeah a third and a seat
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah a cow and a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t8:o2:1
# text = yeah a cow and a horse
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah he got a whole load of gold and a horse and a seat at the council

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t8:o3:1
# text = yeah he got a whole load of gold and a horse and a seat at the council
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | he | a whole load of gold and a horse and a seat |  | the council |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent load=Theme at council=Asset |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah he didn't get paid at all cos fiacuil ran off before he got anything

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t8:o4:1
# text = nah he didn't get paid at all cos fiacuil ran off before he got anything
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	cos	cos	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	11	obl	_	_
10	fiacuil	fiacuil	X	NN	_	9	goeswith	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pay** | past · passive · do-support |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **run off** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cos=Trajectory |
| 3 | **get** | past | he | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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