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Test 11 · ★★★ · Friends who get it

Kwesi's mum: «that boy's a good friend». Why does she think so?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, friend · What happens: be, think · To what, where: good friend

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 525 «Friends who get it» 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: Kwesi's mum: «that boy's a good friend».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kwesi	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friend	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 friend	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friend	amod
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that boy	a good 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: Why does she think so?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	friend						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He shares what he can, every week

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	2 shares	nsubj
2	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 shares	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 can	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 week	punct
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shares	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	He						tree rules

Option 2

He gives Kwesi expensive presents

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	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gives	iobj
4	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 presents	amod
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	He	expensive presents	Kwesi				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kwesi=Recipient present=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He tells Kwesi's secrets to his mum

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	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 secrets	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Kwesi	case
5	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tells	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	He	Kwesi's secrets	Kwesi's mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to mum=Recipient

Option 4

He always lets Kwesi win at games

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 lets	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 lets	advmod
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 win	nsubj
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 games	case
7	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	He					always property	tree rules
2	win	infinitive	Kwesi			games			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at game=Eventuality

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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