Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

Bruv, what made Gudrun kick off at the river?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gudrun · What happens: make, kick off

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kick	nsubj
6	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 kick	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kick	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past						Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	kick off	infinitive	Gudrun					at the river	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at river=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Brynhild's big mouth on the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mouth	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Brynhild	case
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouth	amod
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouth	nmod

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

Option 2

Brynhild said Gudrun was lying about the ring and mouthing off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 ring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mouthing	cc
10	mouthing	mouth	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lying	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 mouthing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Brynhild		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	past · progressive	Gudrun	about the ring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about ring=Location
3	mouth off	gerund	Gudrun not said here		tree rules

Option 3

Sigurd's gold went missing bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gold	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sigurd	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bruv	amod
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Sigurd's gold	missing bruv					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bruv=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Brynhild telling everyone that Sigurd had given Gudrun the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brynhild	brynhild	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Brynhild	acl
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 telling	iobj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 given	obj
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 given	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 everyone	acl:relcl
8	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 given	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Brynhild not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	give	past · perfect	Sigurd	the ring	Gudrun				tree rules

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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