Test 5 · ★★★ · Growing apart
«friends who drift apart were never real friends anyway». True?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: drift apart, not be · To what, where: real friends
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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: «friends who drift apart were never real friends anyway».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 friends | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 drift | nsubj |
| 4 | drift | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 friends | acl:relcl |
| 5 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 4 drift | advmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 friends | cop |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 friends | advmod |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friends | amod |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 9 friends | advmod |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 friends | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 friends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift apart in a quote | present | friends | apart property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | past | friends | real friends | anyway 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: True?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 True | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
No, real friendships can end without anyone failing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 end | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friendships | amod |
| 4 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 end | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | aux |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 failing | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 failing | compound |
| 9 | failing | failing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | can | real friendships | without anyone failing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, real friends never change, so they must have been fakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 change | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 change | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 change | advmod |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fakes | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 fakes | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fakes | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fakes | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fakes | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 fakes | cop |
| 13 | fakes | fake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 change | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | present | real friends | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must · perfect | friends = friend | fakes | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, that's how you spot fakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 spot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spot | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 how | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 how | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 spot | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 spot | nsubj |
| 7 | spot | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fakes | fake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spot | present | you | fakes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fake=Destination |
Option 4
No, they were enemies all along
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 enemies | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 enemies | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enemies | cop |
| 5 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 along | advmod |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 enemies | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | enemies | along property | tree rules |
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