--- title: At what location does Goll state that he caused the death of Fionn's… — Finn and His Companions, The Little Br… · tree and pragmatics description: At what location does Goll state that he caused the death of Fionn's father? Exam question 2 of lesson 1054 «Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 22: Goll outgives Fionn at the banquet and admits killing Fionn's father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1054-pg2892-part22/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Finn and His Companions, The Little Br…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1054-pg2892-part22/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2… At what location does Goll state that he caused the death of Fionn's father? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Goll, father · **What happens:** state, cause, die · **To what, where:** death · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 2 of lesson 1054 «Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 22: Goll outgives Fionn at the banquet and admits killing Fionn's father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1054-pg2892-part22/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e2:1 # text = At what location does Goll state that he caused the death of Fionn's father? 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 3 location location NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 state state VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present · do-support | Goll | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | past | Goll | the death of Fionn's father | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | | 3 | **die** | | Fionn's father | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Cnocha, in Lochlann ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e2:o1:1 # text = Cnocha, in Lochlann 1 Cnocha Cnocha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Lochlann Lochlann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Lochlann ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e2:o2:1 # text = Lochlann 1 Lochlann Lochlann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Allen, in Lochlann ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e2:o3:1 # text = Allen, in Lochlann 1 Allen Allen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Lochlann Lochlann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Cnocha, in Ireland ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e2:o4:1 # text = Cnocha, in Ireland 1 Cnocha Cnocha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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