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title: Classmate: "Dad's a weekend dad now, I see him Sat and Sun." What is… — Soft words for hard things: relations… · tree and pragmatics
description: Classmate: "Dad's a weekend dad now, I see him Sat and Sun." What is true? Test 4 · ★ 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 the question and of each option
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# Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

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Classmate: "Dad's a weekend dad now, I see him Sat and Sun." What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dad, Classmate, Sat · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** weekend dad, him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t4:1
# text = Classmate: "Dad's a weekend dad now, I see him Sat and Sun." What is true?
1	Classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Dad | a weekend dad |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Classmate | him *= he* |  |  | saturday |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Sat and Sun. |  |  |  |  | true *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Dad lives with him all week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t4:o1:1
# text = Dad lives with him all week
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Dad |  |  |  | week | with him *= he* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His parents live apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t4:o2:1
# text = His parents live apart
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | His parents |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dad is away on a holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t4:o3:1
# text = Dad is away on a holiday
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Dad |  |  | a holiday |  | away *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dad works only at weekends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t4:o4:1
# text = Dad works only at weekends
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Dad |  |  |  | weekend |  | vn employment-95.3 «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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