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title: Did the giant say "Blood and fury" or "Holy moly"? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the giant say "Blood and fury" or "Holy moly"? Test 8 · ★ 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

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Did the giant say "Blood and fury" or "Holy moly"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** giant say

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t8:1
# text = Did the giant say "Blood and fury" or "Holy moly"?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	say	say	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	moly	moly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the giant say and Blood and fury or Holy moly |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Eventuality |

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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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Holy moly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t8:o1:1
# text = Holy moly
1	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	moly	moly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Holy Mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t8:o2:1
# text = Holy Mother
1	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Blood and fury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t8:o3:1
# text = Blood and fury
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dear me

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t8:o4:1
# text = Dear me
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
```

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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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