Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…
Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree on bedtimes." Who is the leaflet for?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Co-parenting, parents · What happens: work, agree, be · To what, where: Parenting leaflet
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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: Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree on bedtimes."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parenting | parenting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaflet | compound |
| 2 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 works | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 works | punct |
| 5 | Co-parenting | co-parenting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 works | nsubj |
| 6 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaflet | acl:relcl |
| 7 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 works | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 agree | mark |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 parents | det |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 11 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 works | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bedtimes | case |
| 13 | bedtimes | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 agree | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaflet | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaflet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | present | Co-parenting | Parenting leaflet not said here | well property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leaflet=Material | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present | both parents | on bedtimes | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on bedtime=Topic |
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: Who is the leaflet for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 leaflet | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaflet | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaflet | det |
| 4 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 leaflet | case |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaflet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for the leaflet | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Teachers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Parents of twins who share all the work of bedtime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 share | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 twins | case |
| 3 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Parents | nmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 share | nsubj |
| 5 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 work | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 work | det |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 share | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bedtime | case |
| 10 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 work | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Parents of twins | all work of bedtime | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | bedtime | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Parents who live apart but raise children together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 raise | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Parents | acl:relcl |
| 4 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 live | cc |
| 6 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 raise | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 raise | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Parents | apart property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | present | Parents | children | together property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
Option 4
Grandparents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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