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title: Lily and Maddie are snapping at each other every weekend. What would… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily and Maddie are snapping at each other every weekend. What would most likely happen if they just stayed silent? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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 wa
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Growing apart

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Lily and Maddie are snapping at each other every weekend. What would most likely happen if they just stayed silent?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** snap, happen, stay · **To what, where:** each

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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/464-growing-apart/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily and Maddie are snapping at each other every weekend.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t3:1
# text = Lily and Maddie are snapping at each other every weekend.
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | present · progressive | Lily and Maddie |  |  | each | weekend |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=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 would most likely happen if they just stayed silent?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t3:2
# text = What would most likely happen if they just stayed silent?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It would fix itself by Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t3:o1:1
# text = It would fix itself by Friday
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | would | It | itself *= it* |  |  | friday |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |

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

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They'd drift further apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t3:o2:1
# text = They'd drift further apart
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drift	drift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	further	further	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift** | would | They |  |  |  |  | apart, further *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They'd become closer than ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t3:o3:1
# text = They'd become closer than ever
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | They |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Someone else would fix it for them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t3:o4:1
# text = Someone else would fix it for them
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | would | Someone | it |  |  |  | for them *= they* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Product for they=Beneficiary |

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