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description: What did Fionn offer Goll following the victory, and how did Goll respond? Exam question 4 of lesson 1061 «Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats the hags and frees the Fianna» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 4 · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

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What did Fionn offer Goll following the victory, and how did Goll respond?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fionn, Goll · **What happens:** offer, follow, respond · **To what, where:** Goll, victory

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1061 «Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats the hags and frees the Fianna» 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/1061-pg2892-part29/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:e4:1
# text = What did Fionn offer Goll following the victory, and how did Goll respond?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · do-support | Fionn | Goll |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal goll=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | Goll *not said here* | the victory |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His daughter in marriage, which Goll accepted with pleasure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:e4:o1:1
# text = His daughter in marriage, which Goll accepted with pleasure
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | His daughter in marriage |  |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His daughter in marriage, which Goll accepted with pleasure and gratitude before the whole Fianna

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:e4:o2:1
# text = His daughter in marriage, which Goll accepted with pleasure and gratitude before the whole Fianna
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | His daughter in marriage |  |  |  | before the whole Fianna | with pleasure and gratitude | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His son in marriage, which Goll refused

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:e4:o3:1
# text = His son in marriage, which Goll refused
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | His son in marriage |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A great feast and a share of land, which Goll refused at first but accepted after Fionn pressed him

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:e4:o4:1
# text = A great feast and a share of land, which Goll refused at first but accepted after Fionn pressed him
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	obl	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | a great feast and a share of land |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **accept** | past | a great feast and a share of land *not said here* |  |  |  | after Fionn |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **press** | past | a great feast and a share of land | Goll |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 4 | **share** |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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