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title: Was the glen a gas big hole? How deep? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the glen a gas big hole? How deep? Test 6 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

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Was the glen a gas big hole? How deep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** glen

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This is test 6 · ★ 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. 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Was the glen a gas big hole?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t6:1
# text = Was the glen a gas big hole?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	glen	glen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the glen |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* How deep?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t6:2
# text = How deep?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three hundred feet deep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t6:o1:1
# text = Three hundred feet deep
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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Four hundred feet deep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t6:o2:1
# text = Four hundred feet deep
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two hundred feet wide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t6:o3:1
# text = Two hundred feet wide
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Four hundred feet deep and a mile across

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t6:o4:1
# text = Four hundred feet deep and a mile across
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	across	across	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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