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title: What would happen if Ruby added the «cousin's friend» without checki… — The fake friend online · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Ruby added the «cousin's friend» without checking? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 447 «The fake friend online» 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 · ★ · The fake friend online

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What would happen if Ruby added the «cousin's friend» without checking?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ruby · **What happens:** happen, add, check · **To what, where:** friend

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 447 «The fake friend online» 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/447-the-fake-friend-online/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:447-the-fake-friend-online:t8:1
# text = What would happen if Ruby added the «cousin's friend» without checking?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Ruby | cousin's friend |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 3 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «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 {#o1}

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She'd get a free prize

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:447-the-fake-friend-online:t8:o1:1
# text = She'd get a free prize
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | She | a free prize |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Her cousin would be cross with her for a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:447-the-fake-friend-online:t8:o2:1
# text = Her cousin would be cross with her for a day
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Her cousin |  |  |  | day | with her *= she*; cross *property* | tree rules |

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

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A stranger would be in her friends list

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:447-the-fake-friend-online:t8:o3:1
# text = A stranger would be in her friends list
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | a stranger |  |  | her friends list |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing could happen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:447-the-fake-friend-online:t8:o4:1
# text = Nothing could happen
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | could | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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