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title: ★★★ Theo-Jack's mum married Rob, who has 2 daughters. Mum and Rob th… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Theo-Jack's mum married Rob, who has 2 daughters. Mum and Rob then had a baby boy. Who is the baby to Rob's daughters? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 505 «Half- and step-siblings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Half- and step-siblings

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★★★ Theo-Jack's mum married Rob, who has 2 daughters. Mum and Rob then had a baby boy. Who is the baby to Rob's daughters?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Rob, Mum, baby · **What happens:** marry, have, be · **To what, where:** Rob, 2 daughters, baby boy

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 505 «Half- and step-siblings» 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/505-half-and-step-siblings/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Theo-Jack's mum married Rob, who has 2 daughters.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings:t7:1
# text = ★★★ Theo-Jack's mum married Rob, who has 2 daughters.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
4	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Rob	Rob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | ★ | Rob |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rob=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Rob | 2 daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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:* Mum and Rob then had a baby boy.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings:t7:2
# text = Mum and Rob then had a baby boy.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Rob	Rob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Mum and Rob | a baby boy |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |

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*Sentence 3:* Who is the baby to Rob's daughters?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings:t7:3
# text = Who is the baby to Rob's daughters?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Rob	Rob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the baby to Rob's daughters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Their stepbrother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings:t7:o1:1
# text = Their stepbrother
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stepbrother	stepbrother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Their half-brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings:t7:o2:1
# text = Their half-brother
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Their cousin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings:t7:o3:1
# text = Their cousin
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Not related to them at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings:t7:o4:1
# text = Not related to them at all
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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