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title: Bruv, how long did the Danes last in Ireland? — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how long did the Danes last in Ireland? Test 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 question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 1 · ★ · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

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Bruv, how long did the Danes last in Ireland?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Danes · **What happens:** do, last · **To what, where:** Ireland

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This is test 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t1:1
# text = Bruv, how long did the Danes last in Ireland?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	last	last	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **last** | present | the Danes |  |  | Ireland |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a week, mate, but nobody counted properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t1:o1:1
# text = Like a week, mate, but nobody counted properly
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
9	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | participle | nobody | mate *not said here* |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a week, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t1:o2:1
# text = Like a week, mate
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a week, like, from the moment they landed on the shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t1:o3:1
# text = Like a week, like, from the moment they landed on the shore
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | they |  |  | the shore | moment; week |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on shore=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a month, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t1:o4:1
# text = Like a month, bro
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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