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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…

Classmate: "My mum and dad are separated, but they're not divorced." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: separate, not divorce, be · To what, where: Classmate, mum

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 12 «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms 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: Classmate: "My mum and dad are separated, but they're not divorced."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 separated	nsubj:pass
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 separated	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 separated	punct
4	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 separated	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dad	cc
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mum	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 separated	aux:pass
9	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 divorced	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 divorced	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 divorced	nsubj:pass
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 divorced	aux:pass
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 divorced	advmod
15	divorced	divorce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 separated	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 separated	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 separated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate in a quote	present · passive		Classmate					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not divorce in a quote	present · passive		mum					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are married but live apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 married	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 live	cc
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	present · passive		They					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	live	present						apart property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They have never met

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 met	advmod
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	present · perfect	They						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are divorced already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 divorced	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 divorced	aux:pass
3	divorced	divorce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	already	already	ADV	_	3 divorced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divorce	present · passive		They					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

Option 4

They live together happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 live	advmod
4	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	present	They					happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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