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title: Yo, whose heart was Sigurd frying on a stick, innit? — Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonsla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, whose heart was Sigurd frying on a stick, innit? Test 1 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question
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# Test 1 · ★ · Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd…

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Yo, whose heart was Sigurd frying on a stick, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** fry, innit

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t1:1
# text = Yo, whose heart was Sigurd frying on a stick, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	frying	fry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fry** | past · progressive | heart |  |  |  |  | on a stick | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on stick=Instrument |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Odin's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t1:o1:1
# text = Odin's
1	Odin	Odin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Andvari's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t1:o2:1
# text = Andvari's
1	Andvari	Andvari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fafnir's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t1:o3:1
# text = Fafnir's
1	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Regin's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t1:o4:1
# text = Regin's
1	Regin	Regin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

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