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Test 4 · ★★★ · What a real friend is

«ShadowWolf was my best mate, Dad ruined it». Looking back, what's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ShadowWolf, Dad · What happens: be, ruin, look back · To what, where: best mate, mate

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: «ShadowWolf was my best mate, Dad ruined it».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
2	ShadowWolf	ShadowWolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mate	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mate	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mate	nmod:poss
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 mate	amod
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ruined	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
8	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ruined	nsubj
9	ruined	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ruined	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 ruined	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ruined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	ShadowWolf	my best mate					tree rules
2	ruin in a quote	past	Dad	mate					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: Looking back, what's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 true	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 true	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Connor should find him again on a new account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 find	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 account	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 account	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 account	amod
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	should	Connor	him = he		a new account	again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dad kept Connor safe from a stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 stranger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Dad		Connor	a stranger		safe property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer connor=Beneficiary from stranger=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Dad was wrong to block him without asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 block	mark
5	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrong	csubj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 block	obj
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 asking	mark
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 block	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dad					wrong property	tree rules
2	block	to-infinitive		him = he					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

ShadowWolf was surely a kid his own age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ShadowWolf	ShadowWolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kid	cop
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 kid	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 age	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 age	amod
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kid	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ShadowWolf	a kid				surely property	tree rules

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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