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description: Ethan-Jay's mate: «Marmite's rank, mate, your family's weird». What's the truth? Test 5 · ★ 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 wa
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met

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Ethan-Jay's mate: «Marmite's rank, mate, your family's weird». What's the truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** truth · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ethan-Jay's mate: «Marmite's rank, mate, your family's weird».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t5:1
# text = Ethan-Jay's mate: «Marmite's rank, mate, your family's weird».
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Marmite	Marmite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What's the truth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t5:2
# text = What's the truth?
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	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	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 truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Different countries have different tastes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t5:o1:1
# text = Different countries have different tastes
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Different countries | different tastes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Marmite is poisonous for kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t5:o2:1
# text = Marmite is poisonous for kids
1	Marmite	marmite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Marmite |  |  |  |  | for kids; poisonous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His family is weird for liking it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t5:o3:1
# text = His family is weird for liking it
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	liking	like	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	obl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | His family |  |  |  |  | weird *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | gerund |  | family |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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All English people hate Marmite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met:t5:o4:1
# text = All English people hate Marmite
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Marmite	Marmite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | all English people | Marmite |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marmite=Stimulus |

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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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