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title: ok so the moon was like barely there yeah — Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man f… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so the moon was like barely there yeah Test 9 · ★ 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 tre
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

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ok so the moon was like barely there yeah

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t9:1
# text = ok so the moon was like barely there yeah
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  | barely, there *property* | 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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yeah just a faint light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t9:o1:1
# text = yeah just a faint light
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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it was a full bright moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t9:o2:1
# text = it was a full bright moon
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moon	moon	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 | a full bright moon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
pretty bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t9:o3:1
# text = pretty bright
1	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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just a thin gleam through clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1044-pg2892-part12:t9:o4:1
# text = just a thin gleam through clouds
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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