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title: was Ida actually gonna marry the shipbuilder? — Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His… · tree and pragmatics
description: was Ida actually gonna marry the shipbuilder? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
was Ida actually gonna marry the shipbuilder?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ida · **What happens:** be, marry · **To what, where:** Ida, shipbuilder

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» of the books 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/books/1028-pg27200-part239/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1028-pg27200-part239:t5:1
# text = was Ida actually gonna marry the shipbuilder?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
5	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shipbuilder	shipbuilder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Ida |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | infinitive | Ida | the shipbuilder |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shipbuilder=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, they got married in May

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1028-pg27200-part239:t5:o1:1
# text = yeah, they got married in May
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | they |  |  | may |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
only in her head, like a castle in the air, and never in real life at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1028-pg27200-part239:t5:o2:1
# text = only in her head, like a castle in the air, and never in real life at all
1	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, she said yes at the altar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1028-pg27200-part239:t5:o3:1
# text = yes, she said yes at the altar
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | she |  |  | the altar |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
only in her head, like a castle in the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1028-pg27200-part239:t5:o4:1
# text = only in her head, like a castle in the air
1	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

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