Test 7 · ★★★ · What a real friend is
«Maddie moved to Australia so they're not best friends any more». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddie, they · What happens: move, not be, be · To what, where: Australia, best friends
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: «Maddie moved to Australia so they're not best friends any more».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
| 2 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Australia | case |
| 5 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 friends | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 friends | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 friends | advmod |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 friends | amod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | conj |
| 12 | any | any | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 friends | advmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move in a quote | past | Maddie | Australia | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to australia=Result | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | they | best friends | 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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Distance doesn't end a real friendship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 end | advmod |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friendship | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friendship | amod |
| 7 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | present · do-support | Distance | a real friendship | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friendship=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
They need to live in one town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 live | mark |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 need | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 town | nummod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | They | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | They not said here | one town | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
Option 3
Friends always forget each other after moving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forget | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 forget | advmod |
| 3 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 forget | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 moving | mark |
| 7 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 forget | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | Friends | each | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | move | gerund | Friends not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Calls don't count as friendship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 count | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 count | advmod |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 friendship | case |
| 6 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 count | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | present · do-support | Calls | as friendship | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as friendship=Attribute |
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