--- title: Did Fionn promise to protect something big, like, Ireland's honour? — Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat… · tree and pragmatics description: Did Fionn promise to protect something big, like, Ireland's honour? Test 10 · ★ 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 of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1057-pg2892-part25/t10/) [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 Carl of the Drab Coat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1057-pg2892-part25/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g… Did Fionn promise to protect something big, like, Ireland's honour? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fionn, Ireland · **What happens:** promise, protect, honour · **To what, where:** something This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t10:1 # text = Did Fionn promise to protect something big, like, Ireland's honour? 1 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 like like INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Fionn | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **protect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* | something | | | | Ireland's honour *obl* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Beneficiary | | 3 | **honour** | | Ireland | | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} His own honour ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t10:o1:1 # text = His own honour 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **honour** | | His *= he* | | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The honour of Ireland ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t10:o2:1 # text = The honour of Ireland 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **honour** | | | Ireland | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Ireland ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t10:o3:1 # text = Ireland 1 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The lands of Ireland ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t10:o4:1 # text = The lands of Ireland 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` 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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