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title: How did the dog deal with the sheep, quickly or what? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the dog deal with the sheep, quickly or what? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1069 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

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How did the dog deal with the sheep, quickly or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** deal

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1069 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog» 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/1069-pg2892-part37/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1069-pg2892-part37:t11:1
# text = How did the dog deal with the sheep, quickly or what?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | past · do-support | the dog |  |  |  |  | with the sheep; quickly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sheep=Theme |

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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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A leap and a crunch each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1069-pg2892-part37:t11:o1:1
# text = A leap and a crunch each
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crunch	crunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A jump and a chop each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1069-pg2892-part37:t11:o2:1
# text = A jump and a chop each
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1069-pg2892-part37:t11:o3:1
# text = Quickly
1	Quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A jump and a chop each, like clockwork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1069-pg2892-part37:t11:o4:1
# text = A jump and a chop each, like clockwork
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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