Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

What object did Ingiborg bestow upon Sigurd for the purpose of descending to the cliffs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ingiborg, purpose · What happens: bestow, descend · To what, where: cliffs

This is exam question 3 of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 bestow	obl
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bestow	aux
4	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bestow	nsubj
5	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 Sigurd	case
7	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bestow	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 purpose	det
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bestow	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 descending	mark
12	descending	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 purpose	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cliffs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cliffs	det
15	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 descending	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · do-support	Ingiborg					upon Sigurd; for the purpose	tree rules
2	descend	gerund	the purpose not said here			the cliffs			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cliff=Location

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

a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a ball of string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 string	case
4	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ball	nmod

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

Option 4

a bag of gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coins	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	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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