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title: Wasn't the wedding gonna be over in like a day? — Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the pri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasn't the wedding gonna be over in like a day? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» of the books 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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# Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wasn't the wedding gonna be over in like a day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** wedding

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» 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/1094-pg29021-part19/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t8:1
# text = Wasn't the wedding gonna be over in like a day?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | the wedding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | in, over *property* | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it went on nearly two months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t8:o1:1
# text = Nah, it went on nearly two months
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | it |  |  |  | month |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it went on nearly three months and everybody was still partying at the end of it

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t8:o2:1
# text = Nah, it went on nearly three months and everybody was still partying at the end of it
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	partying	party	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | it |  |  |  | month |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **party** | past · progressive | everybody |  |  |  | at the end of end; still |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it went on nearly three months with feasts every single night, mad innit

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t8:o3:1
# text = Nah, it went on nearly three months with feasts every single night, mad innit
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | it | mad innit |  |  | month; night | with feasts | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with feast=Beneficiary |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it went on nearly three months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1094-pg29021-part19:t8:o4:1
# text = Nah, it went on nearly three months
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | it |  |  |  | month |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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