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Test 6 · Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

«If you talk to her you're not my friend». What can Maddie say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Maddie · What happens: talk, not be, say · To what, where: her, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: «If you talk to her you're not my friend».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 talk	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 talk	nsubj
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talk	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 friend	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 friend	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 friend	advmod
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friend	nmod:poss
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	present	you		her = she				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	you	my friend					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 can Maddie say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	Maddie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

«I'm staying out of it»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 staying	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 staying	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 staying	aux
4	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 it	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 staying	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 staying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay out in a quote	present · progressive	I	it					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

«I'll tell everyone your secrets»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 tell	iobj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 secrets	nmod:poss
7	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I	your secrets	everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient secret=Topic

Option 3

«Then I'll pick her side»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 pick	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 pick	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pick	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pick	aux
5	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 side	nmod:poss
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pick	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick in a quote	future	I	her side			then		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

Option 4

«OK, I'll never talk to her»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
2	OK	ok	INTJ	_	7 talk	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 OK	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 talk	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 talk	advmod
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talk	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk in a quote	future	I		her = she				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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