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title: Ollie wants new friends who like trains. Which is safest? — Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft build… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie wants new friends who like trains. Which is safest? Test 8 of lesson 424 «Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building» 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 8 · Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building

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Ollie wants new friends who like trains. Which is safest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ollie, new friends · **What happens:** want, like, be · **To what, where:** new friends, trains

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This is test 8 of lesson 424 «Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building» 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/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ollie wants new friends who like trains.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building:t8:1
# text = Ollie wants new friends who like trains.
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Ollie | new friends |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | present | new friends | trains |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot train=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is safest?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building:t8:2
# text = Which is safest?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	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 |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A random chat room full of strangers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building:t8:o1:1
# text = A random chat room full of strangers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Posting his address in a train game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building:t8:o2:1
# text = Posting his address in a train game
1	Posting	post	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **post** | gerund |  | his address |  | a train game |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme |
| 2 | **address** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Adding everyone who sends a request

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building:t8:o3:1
# text = Adding everyone who sends a request
1	Adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient |
| 2 | **send** | present |  | a request |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The school's games club with a teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building:t8:o4:1
# text = The school's games club with a teacher
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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