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title: «Maddox has a pool so his family's better than ours». What's true? — Comfortable families: enough, but not… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Maddox has a pool so his family's better than ours». What's true? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything

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«Maddox has a pool so his family's better than ours». What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Maddox · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** pool

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday 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/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Maddox has a pool so his family's better than ours».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t5:1
# text = «Maddox has a pool so his family's better than ours».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Maddox	Maddox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Maddox | a pool |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient |

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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's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t5:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ned's family must be poor without a pool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t5:o1:1
# text = Ned's family must be poor without a pool
1	Ned	Ned	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | Ned's family |  |  |  |  | without a pool; poor *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Families with pools are better than others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t5:o2:1
# text = Families with pools are better than others
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Families with pools |  |  |  |  | than others; good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Maddox's family is bad for having a pool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t5:o3:1
# text = Maddox's family is bad for having a pool
1	Maddox	Maddox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
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	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Maddox's family |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | Maddox's family *not said here* | a pool |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Having more money doesn't make a family better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t5:o4:1
# text = Having more money doesn't make a family better
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | more money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Having | a family |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset family=Product |

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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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