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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning families headed by two mothers. Exam question 4 of lesson 16 «New partners and step-families» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 4 · New partners and step-families

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning families headed by two mothers.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, head · **To what, where:** response, concerning families

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 16 «New partners and step-families» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/16-new-partners-and-step-families/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning families headed by two mothers.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **head** | participle |  | concerning families *not said here* |  |  |  | by two mothers | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Such a family requires a father to be complete

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:e4:o1:1
# text = Such a family requires a father to be complete
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | such family | a father |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme father=Precondition |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | such family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | complete *property* | tree rules |

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

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Such a family is as genuine and complete as any other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:e4:o2:1
# text = Such a family is as genuine and complete as any other
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | such family |  |  |  |  | as any; genuine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | such family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Such a family is not recognised as a family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:e4:o3:1
# text = Such a family is not recognised as a family
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recognise** | present · passive |  | such family |  |  |  | as a family | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as family=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Such a family is temporary by its nature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:e4:o4:1
# text = Such a family is temporary by its nature
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | such family |  |  |  |  | by family's nature; temporary *property* | tree rules |

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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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