Test 1 · Adoption
«adopted kids don't have real parents». Right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: adopted kids · What happens: adopt, not have · To what, where: real parents
This is test 1 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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: «adopted kids don't have real parents».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 2 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kids | amod |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parents | amod |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt in a quote | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | present · do-support | adopted kids | real parents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yes, only birth parents are real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 real | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 parents | advmod |
| 4 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 parents | compound |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 real | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 real | cop |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | birth parents | real property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, until they turn 18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 turn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 turn | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 turn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | they | 18 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 18=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, adoptive parents are real parents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 adoptive | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | adoptive | adoptive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parents | amod |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parents | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 parents | cop |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parents | amod |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | adoptive parents | real parents | tree rules |
Option 4
No, because they're all orphans with no parents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 orphans | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 orphans | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 orphans | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 orphans | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 orphans | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 orphans | advmod |
| 7 | orphans | orphan | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 parents | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 parents | det |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 orphans | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | orphans | with no parents; all property | tree rules |
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