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title: Did Saeve turn into a sheep or a fawn? — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Saeve turn into a sheep or a fawn? Test 7 · ★ 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 choice w
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# Test 7 · ★ · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

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Did Saeve turn into a sheep or a fawn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Saeve · **What happens:** turn

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t7:1
# text = Did Saeve turn into a sheep or a fawn?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · do-support | Saeve |  |  |  |  | into a sheep or a fawn *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sheep=Result |

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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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a doe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t7:o1:1
# text = a doe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t7:o2:1
# text = a sheep
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	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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a fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t7:o3:1
# text = a fox
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a fawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:t7:o4:1
# text = a fawn
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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