--- title: Specify the number of hounds that Fionn took with him when hunting i… — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics description: Specify the number of hounds that Fionn took with him when hunting in the years that followed. Exam question 2 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 p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1049-pg2892-part17/e2/) [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/) / [Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1049-pg2892-part17/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home… Specify the number of hounds that Fionn took with him when hunting in the years that followed. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, hounds, years · **What happens:** specify, take, hunt, follow · **To what, where:** number This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e2:1 # text = Specify the number of hounds that Fionn took with him when hunting in the years that followed. 1 Specify specify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **specify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of hounds | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | hounds | | | | | with Fionn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hunt** | gerund | hounds *not said here* | | | | year | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **follow** | past | the years | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Five hounds, the best from his kennels ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e2:o1:1 # text = Five hounds, the best from his kennels 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 kennels kennel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e2:o2:1 # text = Five 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e2:o3:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e2:o4:1 # text = One 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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