Test 6 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families

Why does it take time to feel close to a new step-parent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take, feel · To what, where: it

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	expl
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feel	mark
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 parent	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 parent	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 parent	amod
12	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 parent	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 step	punct
14	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support		it			time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	feel	to-infinitive						close 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

It means the step-parent is a bad person

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parent	det
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parent	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 step	punct
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 person	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 person	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the step parent	a bad person					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Getting to know someone well always takes time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 takes	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 know	mark
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Getting	xcomp
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 know	obj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 know	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 takes	advmod
7	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	know	to-infinitive		someone		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
3	take	present	Getting		time	always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Step-parents are not allowed to be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parents	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Step	punct
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 kind	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Step parents					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Step parents not said here					kind property	tree rules

Option 4

Children should never get close to step-parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 step	mark
7	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 close	advcl
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 parents	punct
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 step	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	should	Children					close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	step	to-infinitive	Children not said here	parents					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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