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title: By what means does Mongan dispose of the hag who guarded the jewels? — Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means does Mongan dispose of the hag who guarded the jewels? Exam question 3 of lesson 1073 «Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the priests and wins back Duv Laca» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

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By what means does Mongan dispose of the hag who guarded the jewels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mongan, hag · **What happens:** mean, dispose, guard · **To what, where:** jewels

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1073 «Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the priests and wins back Duv Laca» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1073-pg2892-part41/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:e3:1
# text = By what means does Mongan dispose of the hag who guarded the jewels?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dispose	dispose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dispose** | present · do-support | Mongan |  |  |  |  | of the hag | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **guard** | past | the hag | the jewels |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Beneficiary |

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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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By a sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:e3:o1:1
# text = By a sword
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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By placing a spike beneath her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:e3:o2:1
# text = By placing a spike beneath her
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund |  | a spike |  |  |  | beneath her *= she* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spike=Theme beneath she=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By placing a stone upon her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:e3:o3:1
# text = By placing a stone upon her
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund |  | a stone |  |  |  | upon her *= she* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme upon she=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By placing a spike beneath her as she sat guarding the jewels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:e3:o4:1
# text = By placing a spike beneath her as she sat guarding the jewels
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund | she *not said here* | a spike |  |  |  | beneath her *= she* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spike=Theme beneath she=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **guard** | gerund | she *not said here* | the jewels |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Beneficiary |

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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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