--- title: Mate, did Fionn actually chuck his spear at the fawn? — Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, did Fionn actually chuck his spear at the fawn? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1048-pg2892-part16/t1/) [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/) / [Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1048-pg2892-part16/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn… Mate, did Fionn actually chuck his spear at the fawn? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** chuck · **To what, where:** spear, fawn This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» 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/1048-pg2892-part16/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t1:1 # text = Mate, did Fionn actually chuck his spear at the fawn? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 actually actually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 chuck chuck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fawn fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuck** | past · do-support | Fionn | Fionn's spear | | the fawn | | Mate *vocative*; actually *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at fawn=Destination | 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} Yeah, he hurled it hard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t1:o1:1 # text = Yeah, he hurled it hard 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hurled hurl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurl** | past | he | it | | | | hard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, he threw it hard and missed the fawn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t1:o2:1 # text = Yeah, he threw it hard and missed the fawn 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fawn fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | past | he | it | | | | hard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **miss** | past | he *not said here* | the fawn | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fawn=Stimulus | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Nah, he never used it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t1:o3:1 # text = Nah, he never used it 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **use** | past | he | it | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, he never used it and kept it for later on ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t1:o4:1 # text = Nah, he never used it and kept it for later on 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **use** | past | he | it | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | past | he *not said here* | it | | | | late *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | **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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