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Test 11 · Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

«there's three of us and it's always two v one, it's giving drama». («it's giving» means it feels like.) What's a real fix?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: three, it, drama, giving · What happens: be, give, mean, feel · To what, where: two v one, drama, real fix · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 478 «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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: «there's three of us and it's always two v one, it's giving drama».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 's	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 three	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 one	advmod
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 one	nummod
12	v	v	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 three	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 giving	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 giving	aux
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 one	acl:relcl
18	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	three of us and two v one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	it	two v one				always property	tree rules
3	give in a quote	present · progressive	it	drama					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drama=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: («it's giving» means it feels like.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 giving	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 giving	aux
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 means	csubj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feels	nsubj
9	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	ccomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	9 feels	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · progressive	drama						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	mean	present	giving						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feel	present	drama						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What's a real fix?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fix	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fix	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fix	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fix	amod
5	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a real fix					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Always pick the same two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 pick	advmod
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pick	obj
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	the same				always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent same=Beneficiary two=Theme

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

Play games that need three, or find a fourth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Play	obj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 games	acl:relcl
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 need	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 find	cc
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Play	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fourth	det
10	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here	games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	need	present	games	three					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot three=Theme
3	find	infinitive	you not said here	a fourth					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=Topic

Option 3

Kick one person out for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 person	nummod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	1 Kick	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	imperative	you not said here	one person				for good	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient

Option 4

Stop being friends with both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 friends	cop
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stop	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 both	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here					with both	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with both=Location
2	is a	gerund		friends					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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