Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

State the means by which Sigurd's life was terminated within his chamber.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State · What happens: mean, terminate · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 terminated	obl
6	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 life	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sigurd	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 terminated	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 terminated	aux:pass
10	terminated	terminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	ccomp
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 chamber	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chamber	nmod:poss
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 terminated	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	State						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	terminate	past · passive		Sigurd's life				within State's chamber	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 fire	case
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

By a stabbing blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 blow	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blow	det
3	stabbing	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 blow	amod
4	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	gerund							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

By poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 poison	case
2	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By a sword thrust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 thrust	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thrust	det
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thrust	compound
4	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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