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title: At what hour of the day was the Shee an Gannon named, according to t… — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robber… · tree and pragmatics
description: At what hour of the day was the Shee an Gannon named, according to the opening of the second tale? Exam question 4 of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

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At what hour of the day was the Shee an Gannon named, according to the opening of the second tale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** name, accord · **To what, where:** Shee Gannon

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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/2003-pg7885-part22/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:e4:1
# text = At what hour of the day was the Shee an Gannon named, according to the opening of the second tale?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Shee	Shee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Gannon	Gannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | the Shee Gannon |  |  | hour | accord the opening of the second tale | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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At dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:e4:o1:1
# text = At dawn
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dawn	dawn	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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At noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:e4:o2:1
# text = At noon
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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At dusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:e4:o3:1
# text = At dusk
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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At sunrise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:e4:o4:1
# text = At sunrise
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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