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title: If Lily rings at 8am on Saturday in England, what is it like in Perth? — The best friend who moves away · tree and pragmatics
description: If Lily rings at 8am on Saturday in England, what is it like in Perth? Test 3 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away

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If Lily rings at 8am on Saturday in England, what is it like in Perth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lily, England · **What happens:** ring, be · **To what, where:** 8, am

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t3:1
# text = If Lily rings at 8am on Saturday in England, what is it like in Perth?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	appos	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Perth	Perth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | present | Lily |  |  | 8  am | saturday | in England; like Perth | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 8=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | England | am *= a.m.* |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sunday morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t3:o1:1
# text = Sunday morning
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Already Saturday afternoon or evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t3:o2:1
# text = Already Saturday afternoon or evening
1	Already	already	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Still Friday night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t3:o3:1
# text = Still Friday night
1	Still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly 8am

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t3:o4:1
# text = Exactly 8am
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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