--- title: was Goll's submission actually sick or was he just being a snake? — Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Br… · tree and pragmatics description: was Goll's submission actually sick or was he just being a snake? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1045 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn slays Aillen, Goll submits to Fionn, and Tuiren marries Iollan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Br…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn s… was Goll's submission actually sick or was he just being a snake? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Goll · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** submission, snake This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1045 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn slays Aillen, Goll submits to Fionn, and Tuiren marries Iollan» 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/1045-pg2892-part13/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1045-pg2892-part13:t4:1 # text = was Goll's submission actually sick or was he just being a snake? 1 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 2 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 submission submission NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 csubj _ _ 5 actually actually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | Goll's submission | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | Goll | a snake | | | | | tree rules | 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} he did it so well he didn't lose any face ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1045-pg2892-part13:t4:o1:1 # text = he did it so well he didn't lose any face 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **lose** | past · do-support | he | any face | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Eventuality | ### Option 2 {#o2} he was dead sneaky about it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1045-pg2892-part13:t4:o2:1 # text = he was dead sneaky about it 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sneaky sneaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | | | about it; sneaky *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} he was a total snake ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1045-pg2892-part13:t4:o3:1 # text = he was a total snake 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | he | a total snake | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} he bent low but kept his pride ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1045-pg2892-part13:t4:o4:1 # text = he bent low but kept his pride 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | past | he | | | | | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | past | he *not said here* | his pride | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme | | 3 | **pride** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | **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. 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