Test 13 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families

new stepdad's ok i guess but feels weird

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: new stepdad · What happens: guess, feel

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 96 «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stepdad	amod
2	stepdad	stepdad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guess	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stepdad	case
4	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guess	nsubj
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 guess	nsubj
6	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 feels	cc
8	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 guess	conj
9	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	new stepdad						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	new stepdad not said here					weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

The options

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

It takes time, be polite and patient

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 polite	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 polite	cop
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 takes	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 patient	cc
8	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 polite	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive			polite property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 2

Tell him straight out he is not your dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 out	advmod
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dad	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dad	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 dad	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he			out property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	not is a	present	he	your dad					tree rules

Option 3

Ignore him until he leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 leaves	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nsubj
5	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	leave	present	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Pretend he is not there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Pretend	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not is	present	he					there property	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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