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title: «how r Maddie and Lily even mates, one's a tomboy one's a princess??… — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics
description: «how r Maddie and Lily even mates, one's a tomboy one's a princess??» What's true? Test 5 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · Maddie the tomboy

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«how r Maddie and Lily even mates, one's a tomboy one's a princess??» What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 5 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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/378-maddie-the-tomboy/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «how r Maddie and Lily even mates, one's a tomboy one's a princess??»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t5:1
# text = «how r Maddie and Lily even mates, one's a tomboy one's a princess??»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	r	r	X	GW	_	0	root	_	_
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	goeswith	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tomboy	tomboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | one | a princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t5:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They only meet to fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t5:o1:1
# text = They only meet to fight
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They will fall out soon, because they are too different

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t5:o2:1
# text = They will fall out soon, because they are too different
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall out** | future | They |  |  |  |  | out, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Very different friends can be very close

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t5:o3:1
# text = Very different friends can be very close
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	close	close	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** | can | different friends |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They must be pretending to be friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t5:o4:1
# text = They must be pretending to be friends
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | must · progressive | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | 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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