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title: Did Fionn just sit there and cry, or what? — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Fionn just sit there and cry, or what? Test 13 · ★ 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 cho
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# Test 13 · ★ · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

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Did Fionn just sit there and cry, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** sit, cry

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t13:1
# text = Did Fionn just sit there and cry, or what?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · do-support | Fionn |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | Fionn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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He wept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t13:o1:1
# text = He wept
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He shouted loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t13:o2:1
# text = He shouted loud
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | He |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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He beat his chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t13:o3:1
# text = He beat his chest
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | He | his chest |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He hit the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t13:o4:1
# text = He hit the wall
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | He | the wall |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme |

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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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