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title: To which province did the two riders depart upon leaving the fortress? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: To which province did the two riders depart upon leaving the fortress? Exam question 4 of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with th
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# Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, par…

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To which province did the two riders depart upon leaving the fortress?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two riders · **What happens:** do, depart, leave · **To what, where:** fortress

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» 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/1075-pg2892-part43/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:e4:1
# text = To which province did the two riders depart upon leaving the fortress?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to which province | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | present | the two riders |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | the two riders *not said here* | the fortress |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortress=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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north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:e4:o1:1
# text = north
1	north	north	ADV	RB	_	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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Ulster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:e4:o2:1
# text = Ulster
1	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:e4:o3:1
# text = home
1	home	home	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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Leinster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:e4:o4:1
# text = Leinster
1	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	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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