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title: Why does it take time to feel close to a new step-parent? — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does it take time to feel close to a new step-parent? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 96 «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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 6 · ★ · Grandparents, divorce and step-families

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Why does it take time to feel close to a new step-parent?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** take, feel · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 96 «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families:t6:1
# text = Why does it take time to feel close to a new step-parent?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · do-support |  | it |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It means the step-parent is a bad person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families:t6:o1:1
# text = It means the step-parent is a bad person
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the step parent | a bad person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Getting to know someone well always takes time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families:t6:o2:1
# text = Getting to know someone well always takes time
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | present | Getting |  |  |  | time | always *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Step-parents are not allowed to be kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families:t6:o3:1
# text = Step-parents are not allowed to be kind
1	Step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | Step parents |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Step parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children should never get close to step-parents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families:t6:o4:1
# text = Children should never get close to step-parents
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | should | Children |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **step** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | parents |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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