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title: In a cartoon, a kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever.… — Kinship care: living with Gran or an a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever. What's more real? Test 5 of lesson 523 «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a cartoon, a kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever. What's more real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** cartoon

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This is test 5 of lesson 523 «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt:t5:1
# text = In a cartoon, a kid living with his gran is sad and lonely forever.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | a kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with kid's gran | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with gran=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | a kid |  |  | a cartoon |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | tree rules |

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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 more real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt:t5:2
# text = What's more real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kids living with grans are always lonely and miserable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt:t5:o1:1
# text = Kids living with grans are always lonely and miserable
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grans	gran	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | Kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with grans | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with gran=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Kids |  |  |  |  | always, lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Living with a gran is always perfect, cosy and never ever hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt:t5:o2:1
# text = Living with a gran is always perfect, cosy and never ever hard
1	Living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with a gran | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with gran=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Living |  |  |  |  | always, perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Living *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It can be hard, and it can also be warm and full of family

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt:t5:o3:1
# text = It can be hard, and it can also be warm and full of family
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | can | it |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of family | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grans are too old to look after anybody at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt:t5:o4:1
# text = Grans are too old to look after anybody at all
1	Grans	Gran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Grans |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Grans *not said here* |  |  |  | after anybody | at all | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme |

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