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Test 10 · How best friends start

Lily's mum still phones her school best friend every Sunday, thirty years later. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, that · What happens: phone, show · To what, where: school best friend

This is test 10 of lesson 461 «How best friends start» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Lily's mum still phones her school best friend every Sunday, thirty years later.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lily	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 phones	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 phones	advmod
5	phones	phone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	compound
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 phones	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Sunday	det
11	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 phones	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 later	punct
13	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 later	obl:unmarked
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 phones	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 phones	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	phone	present	Lily's mum		mum's school best friend		still; sunday	late property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient

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.

Sentence 2: What does that show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Phones are better than visits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 visits	case
5	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Phones					than visits; good property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only grown-ups have best friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 friends	amod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	grown ups	best friends					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

Option 3

Mums have no new friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 friends	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mums	no new friends					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some friendships last a lifetime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 friendships	det
2	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 last	nsubj
3	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lifetime	det
5	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	some friendships	a lifetime					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lifetime=Value

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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