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title: «adopted kids don't have real parents». Right? — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: «adopted kids don't have real parents». Right? Test 1 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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 right.
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# Test 1 · Adoption

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«adopted kids don't have real parents». Right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** adopted kids · **What happens:** adopt, not have · **To what, where:** real parents

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This is test 1 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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/522-adoption/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «adopted kids don't have real parents».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t1:1
# text = «adopted kids don't have real parents».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | adopted kids | real parents |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=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:* Right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t1:2
# text = Right?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, only birth parents are real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, only birth parents are real
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, until they turn 18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, until they turn 18
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | they | 18 |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 18=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, adoptive parents are real parents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t1:o3:1
# text = No, adoptive parents are real parents
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	adoptive	adoptive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | adoptive parents | real parents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, because they're all orphans with no parents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t1:o4:1
# text = No, because they're all orphans with no parents
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	orphans	orphan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | orphans |  |  |  | with no parents; all *property* | tree rules |

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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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