--- title: Some couples get engaged, which is a promise to marry, then plan a w… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: Some couples get engaged, which is a promise to marry, then plan a wedding, and after it go away on a honeymoon; some couples never marry but stay together, and all of these are normal. Who acts: wedding, couples, all. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, couples, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:1 # text = Some couples get engaged, which is a promise to marry, then plan a wedding, and after it go away on a honeymoon; some couples never marry but stay together, and all of these are normal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 couples couple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 engaged engage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 plan plan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 after after SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 honeymoon honeymoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 couples couple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 together together ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 36 nmod _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **engage** | present · passive | | some couples | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a promise | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **plan** | infinitive | | a wedding | | | then | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Topic | | 5 | **go away** | infinitive | wedding | | | a honeymoon | | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on honeymoon=Location | | 6 | **not** **marry** | infinitive | some couples | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **stay together** | present | some couples *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | all | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cars, chores and the shopping list, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/15/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)