--- title: In what location does Gangazara, according to his father's prophecy,… — Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's S… · tree and pragmatics description: In what location does Gangazara, according to his father's prophecy, expect to meet his death? Exam question 2 of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» of the books course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1830-pg7128-part14/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's S…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1830-pg7128-part14/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a… In what location does Gangazara, according to his father's prophecy, expect to meet his death? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gangazara · **What happens:** do, accord, expect, meet, die · **To what, where:** Gangazara, location, prophecy, death This is exam question 2 of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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/1830-pg7128-part14/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:e2:1 # text = In what location does Gangazara, according to his father's prophecy, expect to meet his death? 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 location location NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Gangazara Gangazara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 according accord VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 prophecy prophecy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 expect expect VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | | Gangazara | | what location | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gangazara=Eventuality | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | to Gangazara's father's prophecy *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to prophecy=Goal | | 3 | **expect** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | Gangazara's death | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | | 5 | **die** | | Gangazara | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} On a sea coast ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:e2:o1:1 # text = On a sea coast 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} In the desert ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:e2:o2:1 # text = In the desert 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} The sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:e2:o3:1 # text = The sea 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A cave ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:e2:o4:1 # text = A cave 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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