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title: Bruv, why were the Fianna stuck in that cave, innit? — Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, why were the Fianna stuck in that cave, innit? Test 1 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 1 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

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Bruv, why were the Fianna stuck in that cave, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, innit · **To what, where:** cave

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t1:1
# text = Bruv, why were the Fianna stuck in that cave, innit?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | that cave |  | stuck *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | 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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Caught by a giant boar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t1:o1:1
# text = Caught by a giant boar
1	Caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a giant boar | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bewitched by one druid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t1:o2:1
# text = Bewitched by one druid
1	Bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	druid	druid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bewitch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by one druid | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trapped by hags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t1:o3:1
# text = Trapped by hags
1	Trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hags	hag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by hags | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Spelled by three hags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t1:o4:1
# text = Spelled by three hags
1	Spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hags	hag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by three hags | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent |

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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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