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title: State the number of states through or along whose borders the River… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of states through or along whose borders the River Danube flows. Exam question 3 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 3 · The great rivers

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State the number of states through or along whose borders the River Danube flows.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, River Danube · **What happens:** state, flow · **To what, where:** number, borders

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» of the geography 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/geography/16-the-great-rivers/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e3:1
# text = State the number of states through or along whose borders the River Danube flows.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	conj	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of states |  | borders |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **flow** | present | the River Danube | borders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location border=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Two only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e3:o1:1
# text = Two only
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e3:o2:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e3:o3:1
# text = Twenty
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e3:o4:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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