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title: Where did Goll say he finished off Fionn's da? — Finn and His Companions, The Little Br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did Goll say he finished off Fionn's da? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 8 · ★ · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

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Where did Goll say he finished off Fionn's da?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Goll · **What happens:** say, finish off · **To what, where:** da · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:t8:1
# text = Where did Goll say he finished off Fionn's da?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	da	da	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **finish off** | past | Goll | Fionn's da |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector da=Eventuality |

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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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at Cnocha, out in Lochlann, by the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:t8:o1:1
# text = at Cnocha, out in Lochlann, by the river
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cnocha	Cnocha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

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

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at Cnocha, out in Lochlann

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:t8:o2:1
# text = at Cnocha, out in Lochlann
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cnocha	Cnocha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
at Cnocha, out in Lochlann, where the Fianna fell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:t8:o3:1
# text = at Cnocha, out in Lochlann, where the Fianna fell
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cnocha	Cnocha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	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 | **fall** | past | the Fianna |  |  | Cnocha and Lochlann |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at cnocha=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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at Cnocha, out in Ireland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1054-pg2892-part22:t8:o4:1
# text = at Cnocha, out in Ireland
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cnocha	Cnocha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

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