Test 6 · How best friends start
In a film, two kids become best friends after one big adventure. What's more usual in real life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two kids · What happens: become, be · To what, where: best friends, film, real life
This is test 6 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: In a film, two kids become best friends after one big adventure.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 film | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kids | nummod |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | nsubj |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 friends | amod |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | xcomp |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 adventure | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 adventure | nummod |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adventure | amod |
| 13 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friends | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | two kids | best friends after one big adventure | in a film result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in film=Result |
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's more usual in real life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 usual | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 usual | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 usual | advmod |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 usual | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 usual | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real life | usual property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A teacher making them friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 making | nsubj |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 making | obj |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | a teacher | them = they | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary friend=Product |
Option 2
Saving each other from dragons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 1 Saving | obj |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 each | fixed |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 dragons | case |
| 5 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Saving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | gerund | each | from dragons | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent each=Theme from dragon=Source |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Lots of small shared moments
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 moments | case |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moments | amod |
| 4 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 moments | amod |
| 5 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules |
Option 4
One huge birthday party together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 party | nummod |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 party | amod |
| 3 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 party | compound |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 party | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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