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title: Oisin felt like an eejit for a month. What's an eejit? — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Oisin felt like an eejit for a month. What's an eejit? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 431 «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · When the story falls apart

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Oisin felt like an eejit for a month. What's an eejit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oisin, eejit · **What happens:** feel, be

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 431 «When the story falls apart» of the everyday 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/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Oisin felt like an eejit for a month.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart:t4:1
# text = Oisin felt like an eejit for a month.
1	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eejit	eejit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Oisin |  |  |  | month | like a eejit | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like eejit=Theme |

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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:* What's an eejit?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart:t4:2
# text = What's an eejit?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eejit	eejit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a eejit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A hero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart:t4:o1:1
# text = A hero
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hero	hero	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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A dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart:t4:o2:1
# text = A dog
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart:t4:o3:1
# text = A fool
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fool	fool	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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A teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart:t4:o4:1
# text = A teacher
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	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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