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Test 10 · ★★★ · What a real friend is

«Grumpy Grimshaw gave Sam a plant, that's sus». What really changed him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grumpy, that · What happens: give, be, change · To what, where: plant, Sam

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 485 «What a real friend is» 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: «Grumpy Grimshaw gave Sam a plant, that's sus».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
2	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	_	4 gave	nsubj
3	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Grumpy	flat
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plant	det
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sus	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 sus	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sus	cop
11	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	advcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sus	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	Grumpy	a plant	Sam				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient plant=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	that					suspect property	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 really changed him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 changed	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 changed	advmod
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 changed	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past		Sam					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted Sam to give him back his football from the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	back	back	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 football	nmod:poss
9	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	Sam					tree rules
2	give back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sam not said here	Sam's football	Sam	the garden			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient football=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Small kindnesses over time turned an enemy into a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kindnesses	amod
2	kindnesses	kindness	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kindnesses	nmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 enemy	det
7	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 friend	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 friend	det
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Small kindnesses over time	a enemy				into a friend result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme into friend=Result

Option 3

He was always secretly nice to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 nice	advmod
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 nice	advmod
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 nice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					to everyone; always, nice, secretly property	tree rules

Option 4

Sam's dad paid him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Sam's dad	Sam					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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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