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title: What did Mongan say about them drowning? — Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Mongan say about them drowning? Test 5 · ★ 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.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

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What did Mongan say about them drowning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mongan, them · **What happens:** say, drown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t5:1
# text = What did Mongan say about them drowning?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Mongan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **drown** | gerund | them *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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Sending them a mile down the stream, the way the flood was going anyway

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t5:o1:1
# text = Sending them a mile down the stream, the way the flood was going anyway
1	Sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | down the stream | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | the flood | the way *not said here* |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sending them a mile down the stream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t5:o2:1
# text = Sending them a mile down the stream
1	Sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | down the stream | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sending them a mile down the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t5:o3:1
# text = Sending them a mile down the road
1	Sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | down the road | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sending them a mile down the stream and then the lads could drown in peace

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1073-pg2892-part41:t5:o4:1
# text = Sending them a mile down the stream and then the lads could drown in peace
1	Sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | down the stream and the lads | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme |
| 2 | **drown** | could | Sending |  |  | peace |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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