Test 3 · ★★★ · The friend who only calls when they need something
Mia's sad and Ava hasn't texted once, but she was round every day for the new game. What does that tell Mia?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava, that · What happens: not text, be, tell · To what, where: Ava, Mia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: Mia's sad and Ava hasn't texted once, but she was round every day for the new game.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 texted | cc |
| 5 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 texted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 texted | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 texted | advmod |
| 8 | texted | text | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sad | conj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 texted | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 round | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 round | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 round | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 round | cop |
| 14 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 texted | parataxis |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 round | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 game | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 game | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 game | amod |
| 20 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 round | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not text | present · perfect · passive | Ava | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Ava | day | for the new game; round 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 does that tell Mia?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | that | Mia | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Ava is shy about sadness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shy | cop |
| 3 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 sadness | case |
| 5 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ava | about sadness; shy property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ava is a fair-weather friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friend | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weather | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
| 6 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | compound |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ava | a weather friend | tree rules |
Option 3
Ava's phone is broken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 phone | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ava | case |
| 3 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | Ava's phone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
Ava is her truest friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | truest | true | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ava | Ava's truest friend | 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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