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title: Yo, who joined their hands at the altar? — pg27200, Jurgen: a man with a broken m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who joined their hands at the altar? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 969 «pg27200, Jurgen: a man with a broken mind is taken into a sand-buried church where the dead hold his wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 9 · ★ · pg27200, Jurgen: a man with a broken mind is taken into a…

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Yo, who joined their hands at the altar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** join · **To what, where:** hands, altar

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 969 «pg27200, Jurgen: a man with a broken mind is taken into a sand-buried church where the dead hold his wedding» 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/969-pg27200-part180/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:969-pg27200-part180:t9:1
# text = Yo, who joined their hands at the altar?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past |  | their hands |  | the altar |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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}

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The old priest who had taught Jurgen as a child in school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:969-pg27200-part180:t9:o1:1
# text = The old priest who had taught Jurgen as a child in school
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the old priest | Jurgen |  |  | as a child in school | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient jurgen=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The priest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:969-pg27200-part180:t9:o2:1
# text = The priest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The clergyman who had married them the year before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:969-pg27200-part180:t9:o3:1
# text = The clergyman who had married them the year before
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the clergyman |  |  | year | before *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The mayor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:969-pg27200-part180:t9:o4:1
# text = The mayor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mayor	mayor	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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