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title: Grandma and Uncle have not spoken for months after a politics row. W… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandma and Uncle have not spoken for months after a politics row. What would happen if they agreed to talk about other things? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 15 «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends

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Grandma and Uncle have not spoken for months after a politics row. What would happen if they agreed to talk about other things?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandma · **What happens:** not speak, happen, agree, talk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 15 «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandma and Uncle have not spoken for months after a politics row.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends:t4:1
# text = Grandma and Uncle have not spoken for months after a politics row.
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	compound	_	_
12	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Grandma and Uncle |  |  |  | after a politics row; month |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 would happen if they agreed to talk about other things?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends:t4:2
# text = What would happen if they agreed to talk about other things?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Grandma |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Grandma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about other things | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They might make up and the family barbecues could come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends:t4:o1:1
# text = They might make up and the family barbecues could come back
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	barbecues	barbecue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | might | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | could | the family barbecues |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The election would be cancelled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends:t4:o2:1
# text = The election would be cancelled
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** | would · passive |  | the election |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing could ever change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing could ever change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | could | Nothing |  |  |  | ever |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They would have to vote the same way from now on, or the talking would not count

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends:t4:o4:1
# text = They would have to vote the same way from now on, or the talking would not count
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vote** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | the same way |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **count** | would | the talking |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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