Test 10 · ★★ · Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did
In a cartoon, two enemies are forced to share a house and become best friends in five minutes. What's more real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: two enemies · What happens: force, share, become, be · To what, where: two enemies, cartoon, house, best friends
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 484 «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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, two enemies are forced to share a house and become best friends in five minutes.
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 | 8 forced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 enemies | nummod |
| 6 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forced | aux:pass |
| 8 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 share | mark |
| 10 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forced | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 share | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 become | cc |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 share | conj |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 friends | amod |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 become | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 minutes | case |
| 18 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 minutes | nummod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 friends | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forced | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | present · passive | two enemies | a cartoon | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | share | to-infinitive | two enemies not said here | a house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | infinitive | two enemies not said here | best friends in five minutes | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It can happen, but it takes time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 takes | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | can | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | present | it | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It never happens at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 happens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | present | It | all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
Option 3
Only grown-ups can do it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 ups | advmod |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | can | grown ups | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 4
It always happens in five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 minutes | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | It | minute | always property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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