Exam question 3 · Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd…

Through what agency did Sigurd come to resemble Gunnar in appearance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: come, resemble · To what, where: Gunnar, appearance

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1584 «Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd kills Fafnir, learns the birds' speech, and wakes Brynhild» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 come	nsubj
3	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 resemble	mark
8	resemble	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 resemble	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 appearance	case
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 resemble	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support							tree rules
2	resemble	to-infinitive		Gunnar		appearance			tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

By a cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 cloak	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloak	det
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Through Odin's gift of a cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	4 gift	case
2	Odin	Odin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gift	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Odin	case
4	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cloak	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloak	det
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gift	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift		Odin	a cloak					nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 3

By a spell of the old gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 spell	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 gods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gods	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gods	amod
7	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell			the old gods					nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By the magic of Gunnar's mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 magic	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magic	det
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 mother	case
5	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Gunnar	case
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 magic	nmod

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

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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