Test 18 · Friends, teams and fair play
my mate says if u disagree with ur friend u can't be friends anymore
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, u · What happens: say, disagree, not be · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 18 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 disagree | mark |
| 5 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 disagree | nsubj |
| 6 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 8 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disagree | obl |
| 10 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 friends | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 friends | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 friends | cop |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 friend | acl:relcl |
| 15 | anymore | anymore | ADV | _ | 6 disagree | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | disagree a condition, not said to happen | present | u | with ur's friend; anymore property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is a | can | u | 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.
The options
Option 1
He is right, friends must always agree on everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 agree | aux |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 agree | advmod |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 right | parataxis |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 everything | case |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 agree | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | must | friends | on everything; always property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on everything=Topic |
Option 2
He is right, one argument ends it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ends | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 argument | nummod |
| 6 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ends | nsubj |
| 7 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ends | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present | one argument | it | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
Option 3
He is right, unless you say sorry first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 5 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 say | ccomp |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 say | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wrong; friends can disagree and still stay friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friends | amod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wrong | punct |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disagree | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 disagree | aux |
| 5 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stay | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 disagree | conj |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | can | Wrong friends | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stay | present | Wrong friends not said here | friends | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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