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title: Koa wants to understand his grandad without Mum translating. What's… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents y… · tree and pragmatics
description: Koa wants to understand his grandad without Mum translating. What's the best plan? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 513 «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met

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Koa wants to understand his grandad without Mum translating. What's the best plan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Koa, Mum, best plan · **What happens:** want, understand, translate, be · **To what, where:** grandad

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 513 «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Koa wants to understand his grandad without Mum translating.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t10:1
# text = Koa wants to understand his grandad without Mum translating.
1	Koa	Koa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	translating	translate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Koa |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Koa *not said here* | Koa's grandad |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer grandad=Stimulus |
| 3 | **translate** | gerund | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=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 the best plan?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t10:2
# text = What's the best plan?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 best plan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Learn some Samoan words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t10:o1:1
# text = Learn some Samoan words
1	Learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	Samoan	samoan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | imperative | you *not said here* | some Samoan words |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wait for Grandad to learn English

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t10:o2:1
# text = Wait for Grandad to learn English
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Grandad | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | English |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ask Grandad to stop sending messages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t10:o3:1
# text = Ask Grandad to stop sending messages
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Grandad |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **send** | gerund | you *not said here* | messages |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only listen to English songs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t10:o4:1
# text = Only listen to English songs
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to English songs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |

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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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