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title: Which person did Alfred first agree to marry in the course of this p… — Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which person did Alfred first agree to marry in the course of this part? Exam question 1 of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…

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Which person did Alfred first agree to marry in the course of this part?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** agree, marry · **To what, where:** course

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» 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/797-pg27200-part8/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e1:1
# text = Which person did Alfred first agree to marry in the course of this part?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · do-support | which person |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | which person *not said here* |  |  | the course of this part |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Kaela

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e1:o1:1
# text = Kaela
1	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Kaela's older sister Ellen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e1:o2:1
# text = Kaela's older sister Ellen
1	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Marta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e1:o3:1
# text = Marta
1	Marta	Marta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sophy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e1:o4:1
# text = Sophy
1	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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