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title: What response did Fionn render upon hearing Goll's admission? — Finn and His Companions, The Little Br… · tree and pragmatics
description: What response did Fionn render upon hearing Goll's admission? Exam question 4 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 
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# Exam question 4 · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

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What response did Fionn render upon hearing Goll's admission?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** response, Goll · **What happens:** render, hear, admit · **To what, where:** admission

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e4:1
# text = What response did Fionn render upon hearing Goll's admission?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	admission	admission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | past · do-support | response |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | response *not said here* | Goll's admission |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer admission=Stimulus |
| 3 | **admit** |  | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | nom admission «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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he left the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e4:o1:1
# text = he left the hall
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | he | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |

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

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he sat rigid and unmoving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e4:o2:1
# text = he sat rigid and unmoving
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rigid	rigid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	unmoving	unmov	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | he |  |  |  |  | rigid *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **unmov** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he wept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e4:o3:1
# text = he wept
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he laughed and drank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:e4:o4:1
# text = he laughed and drank
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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