Exam question 4 · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

What did the old fisherman predict regarding Jurgen's future?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old fisherman · What happens: predict, regard

This is exam question 4 of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 predict	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 predict	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fisherman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fisherman	amod
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 predict	nsubj
6	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 future	case
8	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 future	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Jurgen	case
10	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 predict	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 predict	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	predict	past · do-support	the old fisherman					regard Jurgen's future	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Topic
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1

He would marry a fisher's girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 marry	aux
3	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fisher	det
5	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 fisher	case
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	would	He	a fisher's girl					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would stay with the fishermen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 fishermen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishermen	det
6	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He					with the fishermen	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with fisherman=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He would leave the village and never return to the fishermen or the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 return	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 return	advmod
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 fishermen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fishermen	det
11	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 return	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 sea	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fishermen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	He	the village					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme
2	not return	infinitive	He not said here					to the fishermen or the sea result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fisherman=Result

Option 4

He would sail to the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sail	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sail	aux
3	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	would	He			the north			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to north=Trajectory

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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