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title: In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever… — The best friend who moves away · tree and pragmatics
description: In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever with no effort. What's real? Test 8 · ★★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away

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In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever with no effort. What's real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** best friends · **What happens:** move, stay, be · **To what, where:** film

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever with no effort.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t8:1
# text = In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever with no effort.
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	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | best friends |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | present | best friends |  |  | a film |  | with no effort; forever, same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location |

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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 real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t8:2
# text = What's real?
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	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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You need a spaceship to stay friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t8:o1:1
# text = You need a spaceship to stay friends
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spaceship	spaceship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | You | a spaceship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a spaceship *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Friends always forget each other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t8:o2:1
# text = Friends always forget each other
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obj	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present | Friends | each |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Distance never changes anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t8:o3:1
# text = Distance never changes anything
1	Distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | Distance | anything |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Friends far away need effort and flexibility

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away:t8:o4:1
# text = Friends far away need effort and flexibility
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flexibility	flexibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Friends | effort and flexibility |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot effort=Theme |

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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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