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title: «ur being dead mid about chess, it's actually sick». What does the s… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: «ur being dead mid about chess, it's actually sick». What does the speaker think? Test 5 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 5 · How best friends start

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«ur being dead mid about chess, it's actually sick». What does the speaker think?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chess, speaker · **What happens:** be, think

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «ur being dead mid about chess, it's actually sick».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t5:1
# text = «ur being dead mid about chess, it's actually sick».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	4	parataxis	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | chess |  |  |  |  | actually, sick *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:* What does the speaker think?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t5:2
# text = What does the speaker think?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | the speaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Chess is ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t5:o1:1
# text = Chess is ill
1	Chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chess |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Chess isn't boring, it's great

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t5:o2:1
# text = Chess isn't boring, it's great
1	Chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Chess |  |  |  |  | boring *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Chess |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chess is too hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t5:o3:1
# text = Chess is too hard
1	Chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chess |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Chess is in the middle of the park

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t5:o4:1
# text = Chess is in the middle of the park
1	Chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chess |  |  | the middle |  | of the park | tree rules |

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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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