--- title: Which of the following designations correctly characterises the moth… — Gran, cousins and the whole wide family · tree and pragmatics description: Which of the following designations correctly characterises the mother of one's spouse? Exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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 choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Gran, cousins and the whole wide family Which of the following designations correctly characterises the mother of one's spouse? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** mother This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e1:1 # text = Which of the following designations correctly characterises the mother of one's spouse? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 designations designation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 characterises characteris VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 spouse spouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **characteris** | present | | the mother of one's spouse | | | | correctly *property* | tree rules | 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 {#o1} Godmother ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e1:o1:1 # text = Godmother 1 Godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Foster mother ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e1:o2:1 # text = Foster mother 1 Foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Mother-in-law ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e1:o3:1 # text = Mother-in-law 1 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Step-mother ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family:e1:o4:1 # text = Step-mother 1 Step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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