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Test 5 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away

«letters are dead old-school, nobody does that». What did Sam and Ade find?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: letters, nobody, Sam · What happens: be, do, find · To what, where: dead old school, that

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» 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: «letters are dead old-school, nobody does that».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 school	punct
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 school	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 school	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 school	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 school	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 school	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 does	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 school	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	letters	dead old school					tree rules
2	do in a quote	present	nobody	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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 did Sam and Ade find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 find	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Ade	cc
5	Ade	Ade	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sam	conj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	Sam and Ade						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Letters only work in Nigeria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Nigeria	case
5	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Letters					in Nigeria	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in nigeria=Theme

Option 2

Letters never arrive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arrive	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 arrive	advmod
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not arrive	present	Letters						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Letters cost too much to send

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cost	nsubj
2	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cost	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Letters	much					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
2	send	to-infinitive							vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Letters were slow but special

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	cop
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 special	cc
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Letters					slow property	tree rules
2	be		Letters not said here						tree rules

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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