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title: What object did Ingiborg bestow upon Sigurd for the purpose of desce… — Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object did Ingiborg bestow upon Sigurd for the purpose of descending to the cliffs? Exam question 3 of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depend
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

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What object did Ingiborg bestow upon Sigurd for the purpose of descending to the cliffs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ingiborg, purpose · **What happens:** bestow, descend · **To what, where:** cliffs

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/714-pg2435-part54/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e3:1
# text = What object did Ingiborg bestow upon Sigurd for the purpose of descending to the cliffs?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obl	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** | past · do-support | Ingiborg |  |  |  |  | upon Sigurd; for the purpose | tree rules |
| 2 | **descend** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* |  |  | the cliffs |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cliff=Location |

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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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a rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e3:o1:1
# text = a rope
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	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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string

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e3:o2:1
# text = string
1	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a ball of string

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e3:o3:1
# text = a ball of string
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bag of gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e3:o4:1
# text = a bag of gold coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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