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title: With reference to the passage, by what route did Fionn traverse the… — Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat… · tree and pragmatics
description: With reference to the passage, by what route did Fionn traverse the gloomy wood? Exam question 2 of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 2 · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

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With reference to the passage, by what route did Fionn traverse the gloomy wood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** route · **What happens:** traverse · **To what, where:** gloomy wood

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» 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/1057-pg2892-part25/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:e2:1
# text = With reference to the passage, by what route did Fionn traverse the gloomy wood?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	traverse	traverse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **traverse** | past · do-support | route | the gloomy wood |  |  |  | with reference to the passage | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Co-Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Down a worn, rutted path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:e2:o1:1
# text = Down a worn, rutted path
1	Down	down	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	worn	worn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	rutted	rut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Through the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:e2:o2:1
# text = Through the trees
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By a hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:e2:o3:1
# text = By a hill
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Along a hacked, hollow way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:e2:o4:1
# text = Along a hacked, hollow way
1	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	hacked	hack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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