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title: Identify the duration of marriage commemorated by a golden wedding a… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the duration of marriage commemorated by a golden wedding anniversary. Exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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 wron
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# Exam question 2 · Gran, cousins and the whole wide family

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Identify the duration of marriage commemorated by a golden wedding anniversary.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, commemorate · **To what, where:** duration, marriage

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» of the adult life 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/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e2:1
# text = Identify the duration of marriage commemorated by a golden wedding anniversary.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	commemorated	commemorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the duration of marriage |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme |
| 2 | **commemorate** | participle |  | marriage *not said here* |  |  |  | by a golden wedding anniversary | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Twenty-five years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e2:o1:1
# text = Twenty-five years
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sixty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e2:o2:1
# text = Sixty years
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Forty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e2:o3:1
# text = Forty years
1	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Fifty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e2:o4:1
# text = Fifty years
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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