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title: Bruv, what made Gudrun kick off at the river? — Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what made Gudrun kick off at the river? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

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Bruv, what made Gudrun kick off at the river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gudrun · **What happens:** make, kick off

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what made Gudrun kick off at the river?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick off** | infinitive | Gudrun |  |  |  |  | at the river | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at river=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Brynhild's big mouth on the ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t3:o1:1
# text = Brynhild's big mouth on the ring
1	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brynhild said Gudrun was lying about the ring and mouthing off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t3:o2:1
# text = Brynhild said Gudrun was lying about the ring and mouthing off
1	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mouthing	mouth	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brynhild |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | Gudrun |  |  |  |  | about the ring | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about ring=Location |
| 3 | **mouth off** | gerund | Gudrun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sigurd's gold went missing bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t3:o3:1
# text = Sigurd's gold went missing bruv
1	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Sigurd's gold | missing bruv |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bruv=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Brynhild telling everyone that Sigurd had given Gudrun the ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t3:o4:1
# text = Brynhild telling everyone that Sigurd had given Gudrun the ring
1	Brynhild	brynhild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Gudrun	Gudrun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Brynhild *not said here* |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect | Sigurd | the ring | Gudrun |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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