Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Everyday / The best friend who moves away / t8

Test 8 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away

In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever with no effort. What's real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: best friends · What happens: move, stay, be · To what, where: film

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever with no effort.

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	10 stay	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stay	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 move	nsubj
8	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friends	acl:relcl
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 move	advmod
10	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	13 same	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stay	xcomp
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	10 stay	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 effort	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 effort	det
17	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	best friends					apart property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	present	best friends			a film		with no effort; forever, same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location

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 real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

You need a spaceship to stay friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spaceship	det
4	spaceship	spaceship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stay	mark
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	You	a spaceship					tree rules
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	a spaceship not said here	friends					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location

Option 2

Friends always forget each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forget	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 forget	advmod
3	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 forget	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Friends	each				always property	tree rules

Option 3

Distance never changes anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 changes	advmod
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 changes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	Distance	anything					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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

Friends far away need effort and flexibility

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Friends	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flexibility	cc
7	flexibility	flexibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 effort	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Friends	effort and flexibility					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot effort=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/t8/