Test 10 · ★ · New partners and step-families

Your sister insists, "If Mum marries Dave we'll have to call him Dad, that's the rule." Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, Mum, we, that, you · What happens: insist, marry, have, call, be, put · To what, where: Dave, rule, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 16 «New partners and step-families» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your sister insists, "If Mum marries Dave we'll have to call him Dad, that's the rule."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insists	nsubj
3	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 insists	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 marries	mark
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marries	nsubj
8	marries	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 have	advcl
9	Dave	Dave	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 marries	obj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 insists	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 call	mark
14	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 call	obj
16	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 call	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rule	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 rule	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rule	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rule	det
21	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Dad	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 insists	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 insists	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	insist speech: other	present	Your sister		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Mum	Dave	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dave=Patient
3	have in a quote	future	we		tree rules
4	call in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	Dave	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme dad=Result
5	is a in a quote	present	that	the rule	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.

Sentence 2: Put her right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Mum			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, you are not allowed to talk to him at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		you					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		him = he	all			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

There is no such rule; many children use the first name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 rule	det
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 name	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 name	amod
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no such rule			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	present	many children	the first name					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it is the law once they marry, and you must say it every day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 law	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 law	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 law	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	vocative
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 marry	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
9	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 marry	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	obj
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present		the law		tree rules
2	marry	present	they			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	must	you	law	day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Yes, but only in front of visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 front	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 front	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 front	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 visitors	case
8	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 front	nmod

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

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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