--- title: «letters are dead old-school, nobody does that». What did Sam and Ad… — The best friend who moves away · tree and pragmatics description: «letters are dead old-school, nobody does that». What did Sam and Ade find? Test 5 · ★★ 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/t5/) [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/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away «letters are dead old-school, nobody does that». What did Sam and Ade find? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** letters, nobody, Sam · **What happens:** be, do, find · **To what, where:** dead old school, that This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «letters are dead old-school, nobody does that». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t5:1 # text = «letters are dead old-school, nobody does that». 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 nsubj _ _ 10 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | letters | dead old school | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | nobody | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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 did Sam and Ade find? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t5:2 # text = What did Sam and Ade find? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Ade Ade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · do-support | Sam and Ade | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Letters only work in Nigeria ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t5:o1:1 # text = Letters only work in Nigeria 1 Letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Nigeria Nigeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Letters | | | | | in Nigeria | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in nigeria=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Letters never arrive ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t5:o2:1 # text = Letters never arrive 1 Letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **arrive** | present | Letters | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Letters cost too much to send ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t5:o3:1 # text = Letters cost too much to send 1 Letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | present | Letters | much | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | | 2 | **send** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Letters were slow but special ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t5:o4:1 # text = Letters were slow but special 1 Letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Letters | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Letters *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | **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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