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title: Which gift did Sigurd present to the giantess in accordance with Ing… — Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which gift did Sigurd present to the giantess in accordance with Ingiborg's instructions? Exam question 4 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 depen
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# Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

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Which gift did Sigurd present to the giantess in accordance with Ingiborg's instructions?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gift, Ingiborg · **What happens:** present, instruct · **To what, where:** giantess, accordance

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e4:1
# text = Which gift did Sigurd present to the giantess in accordance with Ingiborg's instructions?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past · do-support | which gift |  | the giantess | accordance with Ingiborg's instructions |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to giantess=Recipient |
| 2 | **instruct** |  | Ingiborg |  |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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a ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e4:o1:1
# text = a ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the smallest gold ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e4:o2:1
# text = the smallest gold ring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the bigger gold ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e4:o3:1
# text = the bigger gold ring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	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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the ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:714-pg2435-part54:e4:o4:1
# text = the ring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	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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