Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…
How did they send off Sigurd and Brynhild, like, the funeral?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: send off · To what, where: Sigurd
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 send | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 send | compound:prt |
| 6 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Brynhild | cc |
| 8 | Brynhild | Brynhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sigurd | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 Sigurd | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 funeral | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 funeral | det |
| 13 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Sigurd | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send off | past · do-support | they | Sigurd and Brynhild and the funeral | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=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
Burned in a hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hall | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | participle | a hall | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ship on fire, out to sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 fire | case |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ship | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 sea | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ship | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Buried in a hill, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hill | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | participle | a hill and mate | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hill=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Put on a ship and set on fire, sailed away over the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sailed | punct |
| 10 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 sailed | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sailed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a ship | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on ship=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | you not said here | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sail away | past | the water | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Trajectory |
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