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title: ★★★ Seán's family: 6 chips are left, and 4 kids finish homework firs… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Seán's family: 6 chips are left, and 4 kids finish homework first. Mam cuts chips in half if needed and shares the 6 equally between the 4. How many chips does each get? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 503 «Twins and big families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Test 6 · ★ · Twins and big families

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★★★ Seán's family: 6 chips are left, and 4 kids finish homework first. Mam cuts chips in half if needed and shares the 6 equally between the 4. How many chips does each get?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 4 kids, Mam, many chips · **What happens:** leave, finish, cut, need, share, get · **To what, where:** 6 chips, homework, chips, half, 6

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 503 «Twins and big families» 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/503-twins-and-big-families/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Seán's family: 6 chips are left, and 4 kids finish homework first.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families:t6:1
# text = ★★★ Seán's family: 6 chips are left, and 4 kids finish homework first.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Seán	Seán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · passive |  | 6 chips |  |  |  | ★ *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **finish** | present | 4 kids | homework |  |  |  | first *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=Eventuality |

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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:* Mam cuts chips in half if needed and shares the 6 equally between the 4.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families:t6:2
# text = Mam cuts chips in half if needed and shares the 6 equally between the 4.
1	Mam	Mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	obl	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
12	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | present | Mam | chips |  | half |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Product |
| 2 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | Mam *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **share** | present | Mam *not said here* | the 6 |  |  |  | between the 4; equally *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How many chips does each get?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families:t6:3
# text = How many chips does each get?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · do-support | many chips |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

## The options {#options}

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

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One and a half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families:t6:o1:1
# text = One and a half
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One and a quarter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families:t6:o2:1
# text = One and a quarter
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families:t6:o3:1
# text = One
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families:t6:o4:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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