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title: In a film, two kids become best friends after one big adventure. Wha… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics
description: In a film, two kids become best friends after one big adventure. What's more usual in real life? Test 6 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 6 · How best friends start

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In a film, two kids become best friends after one big adventure. What's more usual in real life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two kids · **What happens:** become, be · **To what, where:** best friends, film, real life

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a film, two kids become best friends after one big adventure.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t6:1
# text = In a film, two kids become best friends after one big adventure.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | two kids | best friends after one big adventure |  |  |  | in a film *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in film=Result |

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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's more usual in real life?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t6:2
# text = What's more usual in real life?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A teacher making them friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t6:o1:1
# text = A teacher making them friends
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | a teacher | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary friend=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Saving each other from dragons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t6:o2:1
# text = Saving each other from dragons
1	Saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	1	obj	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	fixed	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | gerund |  | each |  |  |  | from dragons | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent each=Theme from dragon=Source |

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

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Lots of small shared moments

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t6:o3:1
# text = Lots of small shared moments
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One huge birthday party together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start:t6:o4:1
# text = One huge birthday party together
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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