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Test 9 · How best friends start

«we've been best mates since nursery but she's in the other class now, it's over». Is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, she, class · What happens: be · To what, where: best mates, other class · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: «we've been best mates since nursery but she's in the other class now, it's over».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 mates	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 mates	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mates	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 mates	cop
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 mates	amod
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	since	since	ADP	_	8 nursery	case
8	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mates	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 class	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 class	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 class	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 class	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 class	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 class	amod
15	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mates	conj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mates	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 over	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 over	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 over	cop
20	over	over	ADV	_	16 now	ccomp
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 over	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present · perfect	we	best mates but the other class			since nursery; now		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	she			the other class			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	class					over property	tree rules

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: Is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	class						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, classes end friendships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 end	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 end	nsubj
4	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	classes	friendships					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friendship=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, after one week apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 week	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 week	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 week	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 week	nummod
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 week	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

No, she must change class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 change	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	must	she	class					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, small efforts can keep it going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 efforts	amod
4	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	can	small efforts	it					tree rules
2	go	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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