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Test 8 · ★★★ · What a real friend is

«Scout's just a dog, he's not a real friend». What does the lesson say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, lesson · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: real friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: «Scout's just a dog, he's not a real friend».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 dog	punct
2	Scout	Scout	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Scout	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 dog	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 friend	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 friend	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friend	amod
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	appos
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	dog	a real friend					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 does the lesson say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the lesson						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Dogs can't feel anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	can	Dogs	anything					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 2

Only humans can be friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 humans	advmod
2	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 friends	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 friends	cop
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	humans	friends					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pets can be real friends who need care too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 friends	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 friends	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	acl:relcl
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	7 need	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	Pets	real friends					tree rules
2	need	present	real friends	care					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

Option 4

Pets only love food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 love	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 love	advmod
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Pets	food					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

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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