--- title: Was the bridge sound or what? — Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the bridge sound or what? Test 2 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1073-pg2892-part41/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1073-pg2892-part41/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie… Was the bridge sound or what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bridge sound This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t2:1 # text = Was the bridge sound or what? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 csubj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the bridge sound | | | | | tree rules | 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} Yeah, it was dodgy and wet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t2:o1:1 # text = Yeah, it was dodgy and wet 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | dodgy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nah, it was dodgy and wobbly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t2:o2:1 # text = Nah, it was dodgy and wobbly 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | dodgy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, it was dodgy and wobbly and it nearly fell over before they got on ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t2:o3:1 # text = Nah, it was dodgy and wobbly and it nearly fell over before they got on 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 before before SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 on on ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | dodgy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall over** | past | it | | | | | nearly, over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get on** | past | they | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, it was proper dodgy and wobbly, like, and the lads were terrified of it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t2:o4:1 # text = Nah, it was proper dodgy and wobbly, like, and the lads were terrified of it 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 proper properly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 like like SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lads lad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 terrified terrified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | dodgy, properly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the lads | | | | | of it; terrified *property* | tree rules | **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. 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