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# Test 3 · ★ · Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked…

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Lol so Bran and Sceo'lan just licked the kid's hands like he was a puppy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bran, kid · **What happens:** lick, be · **To what, where:** hands

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1050 «Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked boy among the fighting hounds and takes him home as his own» 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/1050-pg2892-part18/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1050-pg2892-part18:t3:1
# text = Lol so Bran and Sceo'lan just licked the kid's hands like he was a puppy?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Sceo'lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | past | Bran and Sceo'lan | the kid's hands |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source |
| 2 | **is** | past | kid |  |  |  |  | like a puppy | tree rules |

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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 -->
Yeah, super quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1050-pg2892-part18:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, super quick
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	super	super	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they licked him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1050-pg2892-part18:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they licked him
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they went all whiny and licked his hands right away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1050-pg2892-part18:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they went all whiny and licked his hands right away
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	whiny	whiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | they |  |  |  |  | away, whiny *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lick** | past | they *not said here* | his hands |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they growled at him first and then sniffed his feet slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1050-pg2892-part18:t3:o4:1
# text = Nah, they growled at him first and then sniffed his feet slowly
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	growled	growl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	sniffed	sniff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **growl** | past | they |  |  |  |  | at him *= he*; first *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sniff** | past | they *not said here* | his feet |  |  | then | slowly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |

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