---
title: Which event immediately preceded the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu? — Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which event immediately preceded the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu? Exam question 4 of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/e4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/) / e4

# Exam question 4 · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which event immediately preceded the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** event · **What happens:** proceed, marry · **To what, where:** marriage, Barbaik

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» of the books 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/books/1336-pg3454-part61/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e4:1
# text = Which event immediately preceded the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	preceded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past | which event | the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** |  |  | Barbaik and Jegu |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
the wedding feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e4:o1:1
# text = the wedding feast
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Barbaik's acceptance of Jegu's proposal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e4:o2:1
# text = Barbaik's acceptance of Jegu's proposal
1	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** |  | Barbaik | Jegu's proposal |  |  |  |  | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 2 | **propose** |  | Jegu |  |  |  |  |  | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jegu's visit to the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e4:o3:1
# text = Jegu's visit to the lake
1	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** |  | Jegu |  |  |  |  | to the lake | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the brownie's first wish granted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e4:o4:1
# text = the brownie's first wish granted
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brownie	brownie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | participle |  | the brownie's first wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wish** |  | the brownie |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br…, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/e3/)
- next →: [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olw…, test 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1337-pg3454-part62/t1/)
- ↑ back to [Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/)