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title: was the funeral cairn small or massive? — Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundre… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the funeral cairn small or massive? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 13 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…

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was the funeral cairn small or massive?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** funeral cairn · **What happens:** be

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» 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/1062-pg2892-part30/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t13:1
# text = was the funeral cairn small or massive?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the funeral cairn |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the funeral cairn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t13:o1:1
# text = Small
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Massive, a great mound larger than Tara's hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t13:o2:1
# text = Massive, a great mound larger than Tara's hill
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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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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Ten acres wide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t13:o3:1
# text = Ten acres wide
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	acres	acre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two acres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t13:o4:1
# text = Two acres
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	acres	acre	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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