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title: Sus, who got his head chopped off by Sigurd? — Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonsla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus, who got his head chopped off by Sigurd? Test 6 · ★ 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 and of 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Norse Hero Tales, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, part 81: Sigurd…

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Sus, who got his head chopped off by Sigurd?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sus, head · **What happens:** get, chop off

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t6:1
# text = Sus, who got his head chopped off by Sigurd?
1	Sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Sus |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **chop off** | past | Sus's head |  |  |  |  | by Sigurd | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Regin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t6:o1:1
# text = Regin
1	Regin	Regin	PROPN	NNP	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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The smith who forged Gram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t6:o2:1
# text = The smith who forged Gram
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	Gram	Gram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forge** | past | the smith | Gram |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gram=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gunnar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t6:o3:1
# text = Gunnar
1	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fafnir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1584-pg540-part81:t6:o4:1
# text = Fafnir
1	Fafnir	Fafnir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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