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title: How did they send off Sigurd and Brynhild, like, the funeral? — Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did they send off Sigurd and Brynhild, like, the funeral? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

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How did they send off Sigurd and Brynhild, like, the funeral?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** send off · **To what, where:** Sigurd

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t9:1
# text = How did they send off Sigurd and Brynhild, like, the funeral?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send off** | past · do-support | they | Sigurd and Brynhild and the funeral |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Burned in a hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t9:o1:1
# text = Burned in a hall
1	Burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  | a hall |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ship on fire, out to sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t9:o2:1
# text = Ship on fire, out to sea
1	Ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Buried in a hill, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t9:o3:1
# text = Buried in a hill, mate
1	Buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  | a hill and mate |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hill=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Put on a ship and set on fire, sailed away over the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t9:o4:1
# text = Put on a ship and set on fire, sailed away over the water
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a ship |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on ship=Destination |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination |
| 3 | **sail away** | past |  |  |  | the water |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Trajectory |

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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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