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title: Who was the King of Leinster, the one scundering about? — Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the King of Leinster, the one scundering about? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 11 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

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Who was the King of Leinster, the one scundering about?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» 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/1070-pg2892-part38/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t11:1
# text = Who was the King of Leinster, the one scundering about?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	scundering	scunder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scunder** | gerund | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | 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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Fiachna

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t11:o1:1
# text = Fiachna
1	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Branduv, the scundering one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t11:o2:1
# text = Branduv, the scundering one
1	Branduv	Branduv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	scundering	scunder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scunder** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the King of Leinster, Branduv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t11:o3:1
# text = the King of Leinster, Branduv
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Branduv	Branduv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Branduv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t11:o4:1
# text = Branduv
1	Branduv	Branduv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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