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title: Which person was the son of the king in this episode? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which person was the son of the king in this episode? Exam question 1 of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

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Which person was the son of the king in this episode?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** son

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over 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/1983-pg7885-part2/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e1:1
# text = Which person was the son of the king in this episode?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which person | the son |  |  |  | of the king in this episode | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Connla of the Fiery Hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e1:o1:1
# text = Connla of the Fiery Hair
1	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Fiery	Fiery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hair	Hair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fergus of the Red Plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e1:o2:1
# text = Fergus of the Red Plain
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Plain	Plain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Conn of the Hundred Fights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e1:o3:1
# text = Conn of the Hundred Fights
1	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Connla of the Fiery Hair, son of Conn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e1:o4:1
# text = Connla of the Fiery Hair, son of Conn
1	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Fiery	Fiery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hair	Hair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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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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