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title: Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree… — Soft words for hard things: relations… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree on bedtimes." Who is the leaflet for? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

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Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree on bedtimes." Who is the leaflet for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Co-parenting, parents · **What happens:** work, agree, be · **To what, where:** Parenting leaflet

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree on bedtimes."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t12:1
# text = Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree on bedtimes."
1	Parenting	parenting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Co-parenting	co-parenting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bedtimes	bedtime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** *in a quote* | present | Co-parenting | Parenting leaflet *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leaflet=Material |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | present | both parents |  |  |  |  | on bedtimes | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on bedtime=Topic |

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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:* Who is the leaflet for?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t12:2
# text = Who is the leaflet for?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the leaflet | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Teachers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t12:o1:1
# text = Teachers
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Parents of twins who share all the work of bedtime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t12:o2:1
# text = Parents of twins who share all the work of bedtime
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | Parents of twins | all work of bedtime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** |  | bedtime |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Parents who live apart but raise children together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t12:o3:1
# text = Parents who live apart but raise children together
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
6	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Parents |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | present | Parents | children |  |  |  | together *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Grandparents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t12:o4:1
# text = Grandparents
1	Grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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