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Test 11 · ★★★ · The friend who only calls when they need something

«Raj never asks for anything and always brings two biscuits». What kind of friend is Raj?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Raj, kind · What happens: not ask, bring, be · To what, where: two biscuits, Raj

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 470 «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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: «Raj never asks for anything and always brings two biscuits».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Raj	punct
2	Raj	Raj	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 asks	advmod
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 anything	case
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 asks	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brings	cc
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 brings	advmod
9	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	conj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 biscuits	nummod
11	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brings	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 biscuits	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask in a quote	present	Raj					for anything	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring in a quote	present	Raj not said here	two biscuits				always property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme

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 kind of friend is Raj?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Raj	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 friend	case
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Raj	cop
6	Raj	Raj	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Raj	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	what kind of friend	Raj					tree rules

The options

Option 1

A fair-weather friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weather	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fair	punct
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friend	compound
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A frenemy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 frenemy	det
2	frenemy	frenemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A friend who wants something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 friend	acl:relcl
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a friend	something					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A friend who gives as well as takes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 friend	acl:relcl
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 gives	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	as	as	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
8	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a friend						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	take	present	a friend						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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