--- title: What was the number of Fionn's people who died at the banquet? — Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, p… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the number of Fionn's people who died at the banquet? Exam question 3 of lesson 1055 «Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast starts a hall-wide fight, then judges at Tara give their ruling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1055-pg2892-part23/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/) / [Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1055-pg2892-part23/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast… What was the number of Fionn's people who died at the banquet? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** number, people · **What happens:** be, die · **To what, where:** banquet This is exam question 3 of lesson 1055 «Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast starts a hall-wide fight, then judges at Tara give their ruling» 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/1055-pg2892-part23/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:e3:1 # text = What was the number of Fionn's people who died at the banquet? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the number of Fionn's people | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | past | Fionn's people | | | the banquet | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 women at the banquet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:e3:o1:1 # text = Eleven hundred men and women at the banquet 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 _ 5 cc _ _ 5 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Eleven hundred of the Fianna and their wives ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:e3:o2:1 # text = Eleven hundred of the Fianna and their wives 1 Eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Fianna Fianna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Eleven hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23: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} Nine hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:e3:o4:1 # text = Nine hundred 1 Nine nine 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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