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Test 5 · Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

«You can be my second best friend if u want». Is ranking friends a good idea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, u · What happens: be, want, rank · To what, where: second best friend

This is test 5 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: «You can be my second best friend if u want».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 friend	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 friend	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 friend	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 friend	amod
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 want	mark
10	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 friend	advcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	can	You	my second best friend					tree rules
2	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	u						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: Is ranking friends a good idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ranking	aux
2	ranking	rank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 friends	amod
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 friends	appos
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rank	present · progressive							vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Yes, and you should be told yours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj:pass
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should · passive		you	yours				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient your=Topic

Option 2

Yes, everyone should have a list

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 have	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 list	det
7	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	should	everyone	a list					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, friends don't need numbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	friends	numbers					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme

Option 4

No, you should only have one friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 friend	nummod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	should	you	one friend					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

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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