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Test 5 · ★★★ · The friend who only calls when they need something

In a cartoon, the hero keeps doing favours for a «friend» who never helps back, and the friend suddenly changes. What's more real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hero, friend · What happens: keep, do, not help back, change, be · To what, where: cartoon, favours

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon, the hero keeps doing favours for a «friend» who never helps back, and the friend suddenly changes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hero	det
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keeps	xcomp
9	favours	favour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 doing	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 friend	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 helps	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 helps	advmod
17	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	acl:relcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 helps	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 changes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 changes	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 friend	det
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 changes	nsubj
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 changes	advmod
24	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keeps	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the hero			a cartoon			tree rules
2	do	gerund	the hero not said here	favours				for a friend	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Eventuality
3	not help back	present	a friend						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	change	present	the friend					suddenly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 more real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

Cartoons are always true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 true	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One-way friends usually stay one-way unless you ask for balance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 way	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friends	compound
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	nsubj
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 stay	advmod
6	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 way	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl:unmarked
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	12 ask	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 ask	nsubj
12	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 balance	case
14	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	way friends	one way				usually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	you					for balance	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Doing more favours fixes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fixes	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 favours	amod
3	favours	favour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Doing	obj
4	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		more favours					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Eventuality
2	fix	present	Doing	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

If you keep doing favours long enough, they always change by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 keep	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 change	advcl
4	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	favours	favour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 doing	obj
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 doing	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 doing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 change	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 change	advmod
11	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	you						tree rules
2	do	gerund	you not said here	favours				enough, long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Eventuality
3	change	present	favours = favour					by favours = favour; always property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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