--- title: «mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all». What's happened? — The best friend who moves away · tree and pragmatics description: «mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all». What's happened? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/t11/) [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/) / [The best friend who moves away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away «mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all». What's happened? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mia · **What happens:** talk, say, happen · **To what, where:** proper weird · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» 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/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t11:1 # text = «mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all». 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 y'all y'all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | mia | proper weird | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent weird=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | mia *not said here* | | | | | y'all *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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's happened? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t11:2 # text = What's happened? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present · passive | | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} She's in a play ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t11:o1:1 # text = She's in a play 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | She | | | a play | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} She's forgotten English ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t11:o2:1 # text = She's forgotten English 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | present · passive | | She | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} She's just showing off to look cool ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t11:o3:1 # text = She's just showing off to look cool 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show off** | present · progressive | She | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | | | | | cool *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} She picked up words from where she lived ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t11:o4:1 # text = She picked up words from where she lived 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | She | words | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **live** | past | she | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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