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title: Who was the bloke who said "in love he is"? — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the bloke who said "in love he is"? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

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Who was the bloke who said "in love he is"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bloke · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** bloke, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t6:1
# text = Who was the bloke who said "in love he is"?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the bloke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bloke |  |  | love |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in love=Manner |

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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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Caelte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t6:o1:1
# text = Caelte
1	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Conan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t6:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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Goll mac Morna, the one-eyed chief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t6:o3:1
# text = Goll mac Morna, the one-eyed chief
1	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Gariv Cronan the butler, grumbling loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t6:o4:1
# text = Gariv Cronan the butler, grumbling loudly
1	Gariv	Gariv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Cronan	Cronan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	butler	butler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	grumbling	grumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grumble** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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