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title: What reason did Oonagh give for the absence of Fin from the house? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucu… · tree and pragmatics
description: What reason did Oonagh give for the absence of Fin from the house? Exam question 4 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 o
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# Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

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What reason did Oonagh give for the absence of Fin from the house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oonagh · **What happens:** give, absent · **To what, where:** house, Fin

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e4:1
# text = What reason did Oonagh give for the absence of Fin from the house?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | Oonagh |  |  | the house |  | for the absence of Fin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme for absence=Asset |
| 2 | **absent** |  |  | Fin |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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He had gone out to the fields to work the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e4:o1:1
# text = He had gone out to the fields to work the land
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past · perfect | He |  |  |  |  | to the fields | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent land=Material |

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

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He had gone to the Causeway in search of Cucullin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e4:o2:1
# text = He had gone to the Causeway in search of Cucullin
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | He |  |  | search of Cucullin |  | to the Causeway | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to causeway=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **search** |  |  | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He had left for a long walk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e4:o3:1
# text = He had left for a long walk
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | He |  |  |  |  | for a long walk | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for walk=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He had gone to the Causeway in search of Cucullin, the giant from the north

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:e4:o4:1
# text = He had gone to the Causeway in search of Cucullin, the giant from the north
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | He |  |  | search of Cucullin |  | to the Causeway | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to causeway=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **search** |  |  | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | nom search «act 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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