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title: «bruv just get her loads of sweets, she'll be ur bestie». Will that… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: «bruv just get her loads of sweets, she'll be ur bestie». Will that work? Test 1 of lesson 461 «How best friends start» 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 1 · How best friends start

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«bruv just get her loads of sweets, she'll be ur bestie». Will that work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bruv, that · **What happens:** get, be, work · **To what, where:** loads, bestie

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This is test 1 of lesson 461 «How best friends start» 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/461-how-best-friends-start/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «bruv just get her loads of sweets, she'll be ur bestie».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t1:1
# text = «bruv just get her loads of sweets, she'll be ur bestie».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bestie	bestie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | bruv | bruv's loads of sweets |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | bruv | ur's bestie |  |  |  |  | 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:* Will that work?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t1:2
# text = Will that work?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **work** | future | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, she'd want crisps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t1:o1:1
# text = No, she'd want crisps
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | would | she | crisps |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crisp=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, sweets make friends for life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, sweets make friends for life
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | sweets | friends |  |  |  | for life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent friend=Product for life=Asset |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, friends you buy go when the sweets go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t1:o3:1
# text = No, friends you buy go when the sweets go
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | you | friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | the sweets |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only chocolate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only chocolate
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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