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title: Indicate the place at which the invading Danes first came ashore in… — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Indicate the place at which the invading Danes first came ashore in Ireland. Exam question 4 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 q
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# Exam question 4 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

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Indicate the place at which the invading Danes first came ashore in Ireland.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, invading Danes · **What happens:** indicate, invade, come · **To what, where:** place

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e4:1
# text = Indicate the place at which the invading Danes first came ashore in Ireland.
1	Indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	invading	invade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | imperative | you *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Topic |
| 2 | **invade** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the invading Danes |  |  | the place |  | in Ireland; ashore, first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Location |

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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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the sandy harbour at the mouth of the river Liffey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e4:o1:1
# text = the sandy harbour at the mouth of the river Liffey
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Liffey	Liffey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Inver Lee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e4:o2:1
# text = Inver Lee
1	Inver	Inver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the bay beneath the western cliffs of Allen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e4:o3:1
# text = the bay beneath the western cliffs of Allen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Ben Edair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e4:o4:1
# text = Ben Edair
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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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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