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title: Lads, was Slieve Luachra sixty miles from Ben Edair or what? — Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lads, was Slieve Luachra sixty miles from Ben Edair or what? Test 3 · ★ 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 and of ea
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

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Lads, was Slieve Luachra sixty miles from Ben Edair or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lads · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sixty miles, Ben Edair

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t3:1
# text = Lads, was Slieve Luachra sixty miles from Ben Edair or what?
1	Lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Luachra	Luachra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Lads | sixty miles |  | Ben Edair |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Close to fifty miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t3:o1:1
# text = Close to fifty miles
1	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sixty miles exactly from the hill to the far coast of Ben Edair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t3:o2:1
# text = Sixty miles exactly from the hill to the far coast of Ben Edair
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Sixty miles exactly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t3:o3:1
# text = Sixty miles exactly
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Forty miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t3:o4:1
# text = Forty miles
1	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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