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title: By what means did Oonagh cause Cucullin to injure his own teeth? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucu… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did Oonagh cause Cucullin to injure his own teeth? Exam question 3 of lesson 2010 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks the giant with iron cakes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

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By what means did Oonagh cause Cucullin to injure his own teeth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oonagh, Cucullin · **What happens:** mean, cause, injure · **To what, where:** Cucullin, own teeth

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2010 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks the giant with iron cakes» 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/2010-pg7885-part29/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e3:1
# text = By what means did Oonagh cause Cucullin to injure his own teeth?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | past · do-support | Oonagh | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **injure** | to-infinitive | Cucullin *not said here* | Oonagh's own teeth |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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By hiding iron bars in the bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e3:o1:1
# text = By hiding iron bars in the bread
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  | iron bars |  | the bread |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bar=Patient in bread=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By baking iron griddles into the cakes for him to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e3:o2:1
# text = By baking iron griddles into the cakes for him to eat
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	baking	bake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	griddles	griddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | gerund |  | iron griddles |  | the cakes for him |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent griddle=Material into cake=Product |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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By baking iron griddles into the cakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e3:o3:1
# text = By baking iron griddles into the cakes
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	baking	bake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	griddles	griddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | gerund |  | iron griddles |  | the cakes |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent griddle=Material into cake=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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By baking the cakes with stone inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e3:o4:1
# text = By baking the cakes with stone inside
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	baking	bake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | gerund |  | the cakes |  |  |  | with stone; inside *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cake=Patient with stone=Instrument |

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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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