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Test 7 · ★★★ · Half- and step-siblings

★★★ Theo-Jack's mum married Rob, who has 2 daughters. Mum and Rob then had a baby boy. Who is the baby to Rob's daughters?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Rob, Mum, baby · What happens: marry, have, be · To what, where: Rob, 2 daughters, baby boy

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 505 «Half- and step-siblings» of the everyday 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: ★★★ Theo-Jack's mum married Rob, who has 2 daughters.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 married	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct
4	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Jack	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Theo	punct
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jack	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 married	nsubj
9	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Rob	Rob	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 married	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Rob	acl:relcl
14	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 daughters	nummod
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	★	Rob					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rob=Patient
2	have	present	Rob	2 daughters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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.

Sentence 2: Mum and Rob then had a baby boy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Rob	cc
3	Rob	Rob	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	conj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boy	compound
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mum and Rob	a baby boy			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

Sentence 3: Who is the baby to Rob's daughters?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Who	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 daughters	case
6	Rob	Rob	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 daughters	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Rob	case
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 baby	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the baby to Rob's daughters						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Their stepbrother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stepbrother	nmod:poss
2	stepbrother	stepbrother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their half-brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 brother	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 half	punct
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Their cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Not related to them at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 related	advmod
2	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 related	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 related	obl

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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