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title: Why can talking with friends about what you all saw be a problem? — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can talking with friends about what you all saw be a problem? Test 3 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · Remembering details

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Why can talking with friends about what you all saw be a problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, problem · **What happens:** talk, see, be · **To what, where:** friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/18-remembering-details/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t3:1
# text = Why can talking with friends about what you all saw be a problem?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | can |  | friends |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | infinitive | a problem |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Memories can change to match what others say

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t3:o1:1
# text = Memories can change to match what others say
1	Memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | can | Memories |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **match** | to-infinitive | Memories *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The police do not allow it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t3:o2:1
# text = The police do not allow it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · do-support | the police | it |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Friends always make up stories to sound more exciting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t3:o3:1
# text = Friends always make up stories to sound more exciting
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | present | Friends | stories |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | to-infinitive | stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | exciting *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It makes everyone's memory perfect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t3:o4:1
# text = It makes everyone's memory perfect
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | everyone's memory |  |  |  | perfect *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material memory=Product |

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**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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