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title: Identify the Chief whose wife was transformed into a fawn during his… — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the Chief whose wife was transformed into a fawn during his absence. Exam question 1 of lesson 1049 «Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home and finds his wife turned into a fawn» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 1 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

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Identify the Chief whose wife was transformed into a fawn during his absence.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, his · **What happens:** identify, transform, absent · **To what, where:** Chief, wife, fawn

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1049 «Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home and finds his wife turned into a fawn» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1049-pg2892-part17/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e1:1
# text = Identify the Chief whose wife was transformed into a fawn during his absence.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Chief |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |
| 2 | **transform** | past · passive |  | wife |  |  |  | into a fawn during his absence *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into fawn=Result |
| 3 | **absent** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Goll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e1:o1:1
# text = Goll
1	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e1:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Conan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e1:o3:1
# text = Conan
1	Conan	Conan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Fionn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e1:o4:1
# text = Fionn
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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