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Test 7 · ★★ · Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did

«Grace laughed at my sorry so I'll never have any friends». What happened to Lily?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace, I · What happens: laugh, not have, happen · To what, where: sorry, friends, Lily

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: «Grace laughed at my sorry so I'll never have any friends».

punctnsubjcasenmod:possobladvmodnsubjauxadvmodccompdetobjpunctpunctroot«PUNCTGracePROPNlaughedVERBatADPmyPRONsorryNOUNsoADVIPRON'llAUXneverADVhaveVERBanyDETfriendsNOUN»PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1««PUNCT_3 laughedpunct
2GraceGracePROPNNumber=Sing3 laughednsubj
3laughedlaughVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4atatADP_6 sorrycase
5mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 sorrynmod:poss
6sorrysorryNOUNNumber=Sing3 laughedobl
7sosoADV_11 haveadvmod
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 havensubj
9'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin11 haveaux
10neverneverADVPronType=Neg11 haveadvmod
11havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf3 laughedccomp
12anyanyDETPronType=Ind13 friendsdet
13friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur11 haveobj
14»»PUNCT_3 laughedpunct
15..PUNCT_3 laughedpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1laugh in a quotepastGracemy sorrytree rules
2not have in a quotefutureIany friendsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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 happened to Lily?

nsubjcaseoblpunctrootWhatPRONhappenedVERBtoADPLilyPROPN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int2 happenednsubj
2happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_4 Lilycase
4LilyLilyPROPNNumber=Sing2 happenedobl
5??PUNCT_2 happenedpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastLilyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

She stayed alone for years

nsubjadvmodcaseoblrootShePRONstayedVERBaloneADVforADPyearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 stayednsubj
2stayedstayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3alonealoneADV_2 stayedadvmod
4forforADP_5 yearscase
5yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur2 stayedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1staypastSheyearalone propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Grace became her best friend

nsubjnmod:possamodxcomprootGracePROPNbecameVERBherPRONbestADJfriendNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GraceGracePROPNNumber=Sing2 becamensubj
2becamebecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 friendnmod:poss
4bestgoodADJDegree=Sup5 friendamod
5friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing2 becamexcomp
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1becomepastGraceGrace's best friendvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She moved to another town

nsubjcasedetoblrootShePRONmovedVERBtoADPanotherDETtownNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 movednsubj
2movedmoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_5 towncase
4anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind5 towndet
5towntownNOUNNumber=Sing2 movedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1movepastSheanother townvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to town=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She found new, kind friends

nsubjamodpunctamodobjrootShePRONfoundVERBnewADJ,PUNCTkindADJfriendsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 foundnsubj
2foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3newnewADJDegree=Pos6 friendsamod
4,,PUNCT_6 friendspunct
5kindkindADJDegree=Pos6 friendsamod
6friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur2 foundobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastShenew kind friendsvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

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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