Test 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

Did Gunnar ride the fire himself, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gunnar · What happens: ride · To what, where: fire

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ride	aux
2	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ride	nsubj
3	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ride	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 ride	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 ride	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ride	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · do-support	Gunnar	the fire				Gunnar obl:unmarked	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

Nah, Gunnar sent Hagen to ride the fire in his place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Hagen	Hagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ride	mark
7	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ride	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 place	nmod:poss
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Gunnar	Hagen					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hagen=Theme
2	ride	to-infinitive	Gunnar not said here	the fire		Gunnar's place			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, Gunnar rode the fire himself, mate, bold as anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 rode	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bold	punct
11	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mate	amod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 anything	case
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 bold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Gunnar	the fire				Gunnar obl; mate obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he sent Sigurd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	Sigurd					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he sent Gram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gram	Gram	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	Gram					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gram=Theme

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