Test 4 · ★★ · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours
In a cartoon, the rich kid buys friends with sweets and they love him forever. What's more real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich kid, friends · What happens: buy, love, be · To what, where: friends, cartoon, kid
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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: In a cartoon, the rich kid buys friends with sweets and they love him forever.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kid | amod |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buys | nsubj |
| 8 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buys | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sweets | case |
| 11 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buys | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 love | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 love | nsubj |
| 14 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 buys | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 love | obj |
| 16 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 14 love | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 buys | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | the rich kid | friends | a cartoon | with sweets | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||
| 2 | love | present | friends = friend | kid | forever property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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 more real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 real | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 real | amod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Real friends are always the ones you pay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friends | amod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ones | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ones | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 ones | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ones | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Real friends | the ones | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pay | present | you | the ones not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Asset |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bought friends often leave when the sweets stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 friends | amod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 stop | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sweets | det |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | leave | present | Bought friends | often property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | the sweets | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Sweets always make friends that last forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 last | nsubj |
| 6 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | acl:relcl |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 6 last | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Sweets | friends | always property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | |||
| 2 | last | present | friends | forever property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Rich kids can't make friends without sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kids | amod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 sweets | case |
| 8 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | Rich kids | friends | without sweets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product |
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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