--- title: Lily's mum still phones her school best friend every Sunday, thirty… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: Lily's mum still phones her school best friend every Sunday, thirty years later. What does that show? Test 10 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [How best friends start](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/) / t10 # Test 10 · How best friends start Lily's mum still phones her school best friend every Sunday, thirty years later. What does that show? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, that · **What happens:** phone, show · **To what, where:** school best friend This is test 10 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/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lily's mum still phones her school best friend every Sunday, thirty years later. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t10:1 # text = Lily's mum still phones her school best friend every Sunday, thirty years later. 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 phones phone VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **phone** | present | Lily's mum | | mum's school best friend | | still; sunday | late *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does that show? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t10:2 # text = What does that show? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present · do-support | that | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Phones are better than visits ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t10:o1:1 # text = Phones are better than visits 1 Phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Phones | | | | | than visits; good *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Only grown-ups have best friends ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t10:o2:1 # text = Only grown-ups have best friends 1 Only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | grown ups | best friends | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Mums have no new friends ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t10:o3:1 # text = Mums have no new friends 1 Mums mum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Mums | no new friends | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Some friendships last a lifetime ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t10:o4:1 # text = Some friendships last a lifetime 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lifetime lifetime NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | present | some friendships | a lifetime | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lifetime=Value | **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. 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