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title: Auntie to Mum in the kitchen, a bit sharp: "So is it serious with Ma… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: Auntie to Mum in the kitchen, a bit sharp: "So is it serious with Mark or just a fling?" What is she asking? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · New partners and step-families

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Auntie to Mum in the kitchen, a bit sharp: "So is it serious with Mark or just a fling?" What is she asking?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Auntie, she · **What happens:** be, ask

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 16 «New partners and step-families» 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/16-new-partners-and-step-families/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Auntie to Mum in the kitchen, a bit sharp: "So is it serious with Mark or just a fling?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:t7:1
# text = Auntie to Mum in the kitchen, a bit sharp: "So is it serious with Mark or just a fling?"
1	Auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	So	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Auntie |  |  |  |  | with Mark or a fling; serious *property* | tree rules |

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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 is she asking?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:t7:2
# text = What is she asking?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · progressive | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Whether Mum's relationship with Mark will last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:t7:o1:1
# text = Whether Mum's relationship with Mark will last
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | future | Mum's relationship with Mark |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Whether Mark is good at sports

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:t7:o2:1
# text = Whether Mark is good at sports
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mark |  |  | sports |  | good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Whether Mark is Mum's new boss at the office in town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:t7:o3:1
# text = Whether Mark is Mum's new boss at the office in town
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mark | Mum's new boss |  | the office in town |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Whether Mum and Mark are cousins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:16-new-partners-and-step-families:t7:o4:1
# text = Whether Mum and Mark are cousins
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mum and Mark | cousins |  |  |  |  | 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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