--- title: Being engaged means two people have promised to marry each other, an… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: Being engaged means two people have promised to marry each other, and a ring is often given as a sign of the promise. Who acts: two people. 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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 (two people), 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:9 # text = Being engaged means two people have promised to marry each other, and a ring is often given as a sign of the promise. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 engaged engage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 csubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 9 obj _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 fixed _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V» | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · perfect | two people | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | two people *not said here* | each | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | | 5 | **give** | present · passive | | a ring | | | | as a sign of the promise; often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **sign** | | | the promise | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/8/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)