--- title: What number of men did Cona'n allege had been slain by Fionn? — Finn and His Companions, The Little Br… · tree and pragmatics description: What number of men did Cona'n allege had been slain by Fionn? Exam question 3 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 dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1054-pg2892-part22/e3/) [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/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2… What number of men did Cona'n allege had been slain by Fionn? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** allege, slay · **To what, where:** Cona'n This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e3:1 # text = What number of men did Cona'n allege had been slain by Fionn? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obl _ _ 2 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 6 Cona'n Cona'n PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 allege allege VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 flat _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 slain slay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allege** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **slay** | past · perfect · passive · do-support | Fionn | Cona'n | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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} eleven hundred men and their kin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e3:o1:1 # text = eleven hundred men and their kin 1 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 kin kin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} eleven hundred men at Allen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e3:o2:1 # text = eleven hundred men at Allen 1 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Allen Allen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} eleven hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e3:o3:1 # text = eleven hundred 1 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} twelve hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e3:o4:1 # text = twelve hundred 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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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