Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three gi…

Like, where did Sigurd find the horse and sword?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: find · To what, where: horse

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 715 «Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three giantesses, then finds the horse Gullfaxi and the sword Gunnfjoder» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	6 find	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 find	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sword	cc
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	Sigurd	the horse and sword					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

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

Behind a locked iron door at the back of the giant's house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Behind	behind	ADP	_	5 door	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 door	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 back	det
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 giant	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Behind a locked iron door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Behind	behind	ADP	_	5 door	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
3	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 door	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

In a secret room under the cliff, guarded by a huge giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 room	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 room	det
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 room	amod
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 cliff	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cliff	det
7	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 guarded	punct
9	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 room	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 giant	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 giant	det
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 giant	amod
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	participle		a secret room under the cliff not said here				by a huge giant	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Inside a dark wooden box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	5 box	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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