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Test 8 · ★★★ · Growing apart

Kieran: «my brother's chatting rubbish, me and Tom are forever». What's true by Year 5?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: chat, be

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Kieran: «my brother's chatting rubbish, me and Tom are forever».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rubbish	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 rubbish	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 rubbish	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubbish	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 brother	case
7	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 rubbish	amod
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 me	punct
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 rubbish	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Tom	cc
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 me	conj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 forever	cop
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 rubbish	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 rubbish	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rubbish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other in a quote	gerund							vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present						forever 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: What's true by Year 5?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Year	case
5	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Year	flat
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Brothers always lie about friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 lie	advmod
3	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 friends	case
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Brothers					about friends; always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about friend=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Friendships often change, and that's normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 change	advmod
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 normal	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 normal	cc
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 normal	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 normal	cop
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Friendships					often property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	that					normal property	tree rules

Option 3

Kieran and Tom became twins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Tom	cc
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kieran	conj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Kieran and Tom	twins					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Kieran never makes new friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	Kieran	new friends					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product

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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