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title: wagwan, how did Fergus stop the whole ting? — Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: wagwan, how did Fergus stop the whole ting? Test 5 · ★ 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
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…

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wagwan, how did Fergus stop the whole ting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fergus · **What happens:** stop · **To what, where:** whole ting

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t5:1
# text = wagwan, how did Fergus stop the whole ting?
1	wagwan	wagwan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
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	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past · do-support | Fergus | the whole ting |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ting=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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chanting long rhymes all over the whole hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t5:o1:1
# text = chanting long rhymes all over the whole hall
1	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | gerund |  | long rhymes |  | the whole hall |  | all *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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chanting long rhymes that stopped every lad dead in their tracks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t5:o2:1
# text = chanting long rhymes that stopped every lad dead in their tracks
1	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | gerund |  | long rhymes |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** | past | long rhymes | every lad |  | rhymes's tracks |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality lad=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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chanting old verses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t5:o3:1
# text = chanting old verses
1	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | gerund |  | old verses |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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chanting long rhymes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t5:o4:1
# text = chanting long rhymes
1	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | gerund |  | long rhymes |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic |

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