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title: What did the old fisherman predict regarding Jurgen's future? — Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the old fisherman predict regarding Jurgen's future? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 4 · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/965-pg27200-part176/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:e4:1
# text = What did the old fisherman predict regarding Jurgen's future?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	predict	predict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
8	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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He would marry a fisher's girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:e4:o1:1
# text = He would marry a fisher's girl
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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He would stay with the fishermen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:e4:o2:1
# text = He would stay with the fishermen
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:e4:o3:1
# text = He would leave the village and never return to the fishermen or the sea
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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He would sail to the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:e4:o4:1
# text = He would sail to the north
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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