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title: To what circumstance were the robbers' quarrel and subsequent fighti… — Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what circumstance were the robbers' quarrel and subsequent fighting attributed? Exam question 4 of lesson 1302 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the 
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# Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

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To what circumstance were the robbers' quarrel and subsequent fighting attributed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, attribute · **To what, where:** quarrel, subsequent fighting

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1302 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea» 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/1302-pg3454-part27/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:e4:1
# text = To what circumstance were the robbers' quarrel and subsequent fighting attributed?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
3	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the robbers's quarrel and subsequent fighting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attribute** | participle |  | subsequent fighting *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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The complete exhaustion of all their food supplies and their ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:e4:o1:1
# text = The complete exhaustion of all their food supplies and their ale
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exhaust** |  |  | their food supplies and supplies's ale |  |  |  |  | nom exhaustion «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The shortage of their wine casks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:e4:o2:1
# text = The shortage of their wine casks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shortage	shortage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A quarrel over the stolen gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:e4:o3:1
# text = A quarrel over the stolen gold
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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The exhaustion of their food supplies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:e4:o4:1
# text = The exhaustion of their food supplies
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exhaust** |  |  | their food supplies |  |  |  |  | nom exhaustion «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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