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title: Why did hiding the crack in the borrowed tablet end the friendship? — Good manners on buses and trains, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did hiding the crack in the borrowed tablet end the friendship? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 225 «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 14 · ★ · Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things

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Why did hiding the crack in the borrowed tablet end the friendship?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** hide, borrow · **To what, where:** crack, borrowed tablet end

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 225 «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing:t14:1
# text = Why did hiding the crack in the borrowed tablet end the friendship?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · do-support |  | the crack |  |  | in the borrowed tablet end |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **borrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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His friend stopped trusting him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing:t14:o1:1
# text = His friend stopped trusting him
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | His friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **trust** | gerund | His friend *not said here* | friend |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tablets can never be fixed once they crack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing:t14:o2:1
# text = Tablets can never be fixed once they crack
1	Tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	crack	crack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fix** | can · passive |  | Tablets |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **crack** | present | Tablets *= tablet* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Friends never lend things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing:t14:o3:1
# text = Friends never lend things
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	lend	lend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lend** | present | Friends | things |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The crack was too big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing:t14:o4:1
# text = The crack was too big
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the crack |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

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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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