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title: Mate, did Sigurd really ride the fire or was it Gunnar? — Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did Sigurd really ride the fire or was it Gunnar? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

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Mate, did Sigurd really ride the fire or was it Gunnar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, ride, be · **To what, where:** Sigurd, fire, Gunnar

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» 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/1585-pg540-part82/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t1:1
# text = Mate, did Sigurd really ride the fire or was it Gunnar?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ride** | present | Mate *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Mate | Gunnar |  |  |  |  | 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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Gunnar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t1:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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Gunnar, bruv, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t1:o2:1
# text = Gunnar, bruv, yeah
1	Gunnar	Gunnar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t1:o3:1
# text = Nah
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Sigurd, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t1:o4:1
# text = Sigurd, innit
1	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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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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