Test 8 · ★★★ · Half- and step-siblings
★★★ Lucas's mum married Jaylon's dad. Which statement is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, statement · What happens: marry, be · To what, where: dad
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Lucas's mum married Jaylon's dad.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 married | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lucas | case |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | nsubj |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jaylon | Jaylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Jaylon | case |
| 10 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | ★ | Jaylon's dad | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=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: Which statement is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 statement | det |
| 2 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which statement | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Lucas and Jaylon share no parent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 share | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Jaylon | cc |
| 3 | Jaylon | Jaylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lucas | conj |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 parent | det |
| 6 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Lucas and Jaylon | no parent | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Jaylon is Lucas's half-brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jaylon | Jaylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brother | cop |
| 3 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Lucas | case |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 brother | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Jaylon | Lucas's half brother | tree rules |
Option 3
Lucas and Jaylon share one parent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 share | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Jaylon | cc |
| 3 | Jaylon | Jaylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lucas | conj |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 parent | nummod |
| 6 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Lucas and Jaylon | one parent | tree rules |
Option 4
Lucas and Jaylon share two parents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 share | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Jaylon | cc |
| 3 | Jaylon | Jaylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lucas | conj |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 parents | nummod |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Lucas and Jaylon | two parents | tree rules |
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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