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title: peak, what did Fergus swear to do? — Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: peak, what did Fergus swear to do? Test 12 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…

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peak, what did Fergus swear to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fergus · **What happens:** swear, do · **To what, where:** peak

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t12:1
# text = peak, what did Fergus swear to do?
1	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	appos	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past · do-support | Fergus | peak |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Fergus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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do justice between them and never take gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t12:o1:1
# text = do justice between them and never take gold
1	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | justice |  |  |  | between them *= they* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **take** | infinitive |  | gold |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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

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do justice between them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t12:o2:1
# text = do justice between them
1	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | justice |  |  |  | between them *= they* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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keep the peace here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t12:o3:1
# text = keep the peace here
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the peace |  | here |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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judge the case fairly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t12:o4:1
# text = judge the case fairly
1	judge	judge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | imperative | you *not said here* | the case |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent case=Value |

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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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