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title: Gran on the phone: "Oh love, every marriage has its rough patches, y… — Grown-ups who argue and make up · tree and pragmatics
description: Gran on the phone: "Oh love, every marriage has its rough patches, you'll get through it." What does Gran think? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 14 «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grown-ups who argue and make up

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Gran on the phone: "Oh love, every marriage has its rough patches, you'll get through it." What does Gran think?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** marriage, you, Gran · **What happens:** have, get, think · **To what, where:** rough patches, marriage

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 14 «Grown-ups who argue and make up» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gran on the phone: "Oh love, every marriage has its rough patches, you'll get through it."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up:t4:1
# text = Gran on the phone: "Oh love, every marriage has its rough patches, you'll get through it."
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | every marriage | marriage's rough patches |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  | marriage |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does Gran think?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up:t4:2
# text = What does Gran think?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | Gran |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Mum is going on a long walk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up:t4:o1:1
# text = Mum is going on a long walk
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | Mum |  |  | a long walk |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on walk=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Hard times between couples are common and can be got through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up:t4:o2:1
# text = Hard times between couples are common and can be got through
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	through	through	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hard times between couples |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get through** | can · passive | Hard times between couples *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The path to the house needs repairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up:t4:o3:1
# text = The path to the house needs repairs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	repairs	repair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | the path to the house | repairs |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Mum and Dad must divorce straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up:t4:o4:1
# text = Mum and Dad must divorce straight away
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	divorce	divorce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divorce** | must | Mum and Dad |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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