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title: Was the fawn knackered by the end of the run? — Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the fawn knackered by the end of the run? Test 3 · ★ 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 each op
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# Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

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Was the fawn knackered by the end of the run?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, knacker · **To what, where:** fawn

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t3:1
# text = Was the fawn knackered by the end of the run?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	knackered	knacker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the fawn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **knacker** | participle |  | the fawn *not said here* |  |  | by the end of the run |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yeah, it was knackered

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it was knackered
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	knackered	knacker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knacker** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Not one bit, it was fresh and ready to run again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t3:o2:1
# text = Not one bit, it was fresh and ready to run again
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | bit |  |  |  |  | one bit *obl:unmarked*; fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | bit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | to-infinitive | bit *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Not at all, it was calm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t3:o3:1
# text = Not at all, it was calm
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Not one bit, it was fresh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1048-pg2892-part16:t3:o4:1
# text = Not one bit, it was fresh
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | bit |  |  |  |  | one bit *obl:unmarked*; fresh *property* | tree rules |

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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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