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title: wha's an Ard-Ri anyway, like a gaffer? — Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundre… · tree and pragmatics
description: wha's an Ard-Ri anyway, like a gaffer? Test 8 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 8 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…

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wha's an Ard-Ri anyway, like a gaffer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t8:1
# text = wha's an Ard-Ri anyway, like a gaffer?
1	wha	wha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Ard	Ard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Ri	Ri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gaffer	gaffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A High King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t8:o1:1
# text = A High King
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A kind of lord over all the lesser provincial kings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t8:o2:1
# text = A kind of lord over all the lesser provincial kings
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
9	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A king's son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t8:o3:1
# text = A king's son
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The top ruler over Tara and all the Irish provinces together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t8:o4:1
# text = The top ruler over Tara and all the Irish provinces together
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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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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