Test 1 · Friends, teams and fair play

Which is the best description of a true friend?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: best description

This is test 1 of lesson 52 «Friends, teams and fair play» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 description	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 description	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 description	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 description	amod
5	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 description	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 description	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best description				of a true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Someone who only ever plays with you and with nobody else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 plays	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 plays	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 plays	advmod
5	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 plays	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 plays	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 nobody	case
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 plays	obl
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 nobody	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present					ever	with you; with nobody	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent

Option 2

Someone who gives you sweets every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 gives	iobj
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present		sweets	you		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sweet=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Someone who is kind to you and whom you are kind to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 kind	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 kind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 kind	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kind	cc
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 kind	obl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 kind	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	cop
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	11 kind	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Someone		you			kind property	tree rules
2	is	present	you					kind property	tree rules

Option 4

Someone who does whatever you tell them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tell	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	you	whatever	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient whatever=Topic

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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