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title: Fam, did they actually have a wedding or was it a joke? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, did they actually have a wedding or was it a joke? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 992 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mouse's adventures end in a wedding and a critics' complaint, then storks appear on a roof» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mo…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fam, did they actually have a wedding or was it a joke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fam, they · **What happens:** do, have, be · **To what, where:** wedding, joke

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 992 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mouse's adventures end in a wedding and a critics' complaint, then storks appear on a roof» 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/992-pg27200-part203/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:992-pg27200-part203:t8:1
# text = Fam, did they actually have a wedding or was it a joke?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Fam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | they | a wedding |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Fam | a joke |  |  |  |  | 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 -->
They did, many years later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:992-pg27200-part203:t8:o1:1
# text = They did, many years later
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | They |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They had one, exactly fifty years later, and the soup was still discussed.

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:992-pg27200-part203:t8:o2:1
# text = They had one, exactly fifty years later, and the soup was still discussed.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | They | one |  |  |  | late *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the soup |  |  | still |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, they married after years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:992-pg27200-part203:t8:o3:1
# text = Yes, they married after years
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | they |  |  |  | year |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They had one, fifty years later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:992-pg27200-part203:t8:o4:1
# text = They had one, fifty years later
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | They |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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