--- title: At a wedding, which person is a page boy most like? — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: At a wedding, which person is a page boy most like? Test 11 of lesson 13 «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/t11/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / [Dates, engagements and weddings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/) / t11 # Test 11 · Dates, engagements and weddings At a wedding, which person is a page boy most like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** page boy This is test 11 of lesson 13 «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. 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/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:13-dates-engagements-and-weddings:t11:1 # text = At a wedding, which person is a page boy most like? 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 advmod _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | which person | a page boy | | | | | tree rules | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} A bridesmaid, but a young boy ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:13-dates-engagements-and-weddings:t11:o1:1 # text = A bridesmaid, but a young boy 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bridesmaid bridesmaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The best man's father ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:13-dates-engagements-and-weddings:t11:o2:1 # text = The best man's father 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The person who marries the couple ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:13-dates-engagements-and-weddings:t11:o3:1 # text = The person who marries the couple 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 marries marry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | present | the person | the couple | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} The waiter at the reception ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:13-dates-engagements-and-weddings:t11:o4:1 # text = The waiter at the reception 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 waiter waiter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 reception reception NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` 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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