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title: Through what agency did Sigurd come to resemble Gunnar in appearance? — Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonsla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through what agency did Sigurd come to resemble Gunnar in appearance? Exam question 3 of lesson 1584 «Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd kills Fafnir, learns the birds' speech, and wakes Brynhild» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd…

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Through what agency did Sigurd come to resemble Gunnar in appearance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** come, resemble · **To what, where:** Gunnar, appearance

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1584 «Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd kills Fafnir, learns the birds' speech, and wakes Brynhild» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1584-pg540-part81/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:e3:1
# text = Through what agency did Sigurd come to resemble Gunnar in appearance?
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
3	agency	agency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | to-infinitive |  | Gunnar |  | appearance |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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By a cloak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:e3:o1:1
# text = By a cloak
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Through Odin's gift of a cloak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:e3:o2:1
# text = Through Odin's gift of a cloak
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Odin	Odin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gift** |  | Odin | a cloak |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By a spell of the old gods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:e3:o3:1
# text = By a spell of the old gods
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** |  |  | the old gods |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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By the magic of Gunnar's mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:e3:o4:1
# text = By the magic of Gunnar's mother
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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