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title: «a best friend has to do everything with you, otherwise what's the p… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: «a best friend has to do everything with you, otherwise what's the point». Is that true? Test 3 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 3 · How best friends start

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«a best friend has to do everything with you, otherwise what's the point». Is that true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** best friend, that · **What happens:** have, do, be · **To what, where:** everything, point

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «a best friend has to do everything with you, otherwise what's the point».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t3:1
# text = «a best friend has to do everything with you, otherwise what's the point».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a best friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a best friend *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the point |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | 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:* Is that true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t3:2
# text = Is that true?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
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 | that |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, at least on weekdays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t3:o1:1
# text = Yes, at least on weekdays
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	weekdays	weekday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, or else it's not a real best friend at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t3:o2:1
# text = Yes, or else it's not a real best friend at all
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | it | a real best friend |  | all |  | else *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, best friends never meet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t3:o3:1
# text = No, best friends never meet
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | present | best friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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No, best friends can have different hobbies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t3:o4:1
# text = No, best friends can have different hobbies
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hobbies	hobby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | can | best friends | different hobbies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hobby=Patient |

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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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