Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

Which gift did Sigurd present to the giantess in accordance with Ingiborg's instructions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gift, Ingiborg · What happens: present, instruct · To what, where: giantess, accordance

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 present	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 present	aux
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 present	nsubj
5	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 giantess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giantess	det
8	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 present	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 accordance	case
10	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 present	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 instructions	case
12	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 instructions	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Ingiborg	case
14	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 accordance	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 present	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	present	past · do-support	which gift		the giantess	accordance with Ingiborg's instructions			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to giantess=Recipient
2	instruct		Ingiborg						nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the smallest gold ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
2	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 ring	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	compound
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the bigger gold ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 ring	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	compound
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	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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