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title: Mate, which hounds went to Fionn, and what were they called? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which hounds went to Fionn, and what were they called? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1047 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound, Tuiren is freed, Fionn chases a fawn» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound…

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Mate, which hounds went to Fionn, and what were they called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** hound, go, call · **To what, where:** Fionn, they · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1047 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound, Tuiren is freed, Fionn chases a fawn» 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/1047-pg2892-part15/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t11:1
# text = Mate, which hounds went to Fionn, and what were they called?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hounds	hound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hound** | present | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Mate |  |  | Fionn |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fionn=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |

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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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Lugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t11:o1:1
# text = Lugh
1	Lugh	Lugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Bran and Sceo'lan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t11:o2:1
# text = Bran and Sceo'lan
1	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Sceo'lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Oscar and Conan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t11:o3:1
# text = Oscar and Conan
1	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Conan	Conan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t11:o4:1
# text = Bran
1	Bran	bran	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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