--- title: Hang on, what's a betrothal anyway, is it like getting engaged? — Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpl… · tree and pragmatics description: Hang on, what's a betrothal anyway, is it like getting engaged? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1723-pg640-part47/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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1723-pg640-part47/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton… Hang on, what's a betrothal anyway, is it like getting engaged? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hang on, be, engage · **To what, where:** betrothal This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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/1723-pg640-part47/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t11:1 # text = Hang on, what's a betrothal anyway, is it like getting engaged? 1 Hang hang VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 betrothal betrothal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 getting get AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 engaged engage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | anyway *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a betrothal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | betrothal | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **engage** | gerund · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V» | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Yeah, a promise to get married ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t11:o1:1 # text = Yeah, a promise to get married 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Nah, it's a kind of fight ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t11:o2:1 # text = Nah, it's a kind of fight 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | it | a kind | | | | of fight | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, a sort of royal banquet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t11:o3:1 # text = Nah, a sort of royal banquet 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sort** | | | royal banquet | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, a promise to get married, made in front of the whole court and the King ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t11:o4:1 # text = Yeah, a promise to get married, made in front of the whole court and the King 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a promise *not said here* | | front of the whole court and the King | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | **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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