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title: Lowkey, what did Fergus call his new dog best friend? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what did Fergus call his new dog best friend? Test 4 · ★ 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 option;
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# Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound…

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Lowkey, what did Fergus call his new dog best friend?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fergus · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** new dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t4:1
# text = Lowkey, what did Fergus call his new dog best friend?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | Fergus | Fergus's new dog |  |  |  | Lowkey *vocative* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme dog=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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My One Treasure, My Little Branch, My Best Friend Forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t4:o1:1
# text = My One Treasure, My Little Branch, My Best Friend Forever
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	Forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treasure** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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My One Treasure, My Little Branch, the Hound of Fionn's Hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t4:o2:1
# text = My One Treasure, My Little Branch, the Hound of Fionn's Hill
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treasure** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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My Golden Hound, My Dear Friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t4:o3:1
# text = My Golden Hound, My Dear Friend
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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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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My One Treasure, My Little Branch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1047-pg2892-part15:t4:o4:1
# text = My One Treasure, My Little Branch
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treasure** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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