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title: «friends who drift apart were never real friends anyway». True? — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics
description: «friends who drift apart were never real friends anyway». True? Test 5 · ★★★ 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 was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Growing apart

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«friends who drift apart were never real friends anyway». True?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** drift apart, not be · **To what, where:** real friends

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This is test 5 · ★★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «friends who drift apart were never real friends anyway».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t5:1
# text = «friends who drift apart were never real friends anyway».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drift	drift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift apart** *in a quote* | present | friends |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | friends | real friends |  |  |  | anyway *property* | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* True?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t5:2
# text = True?
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, real friendships can end without anyone failing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t5:o1:1
# text = No, real friendships can end without anyone failing
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	compound	_	_
9	failing	failing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | can | real friendships |  |  |  |  | without anyone failing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, real friends never change, so they must have been fakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t5:o2:1
# text = Yes, real friends never change, so they must have been fakes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	fakes	fake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | real friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | must · perfect | friends *= friend* | fakes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, that's how you spot fakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t5:o3:1
# text = Yes, that's how you spot fakes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spot	spot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fakes	fake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spot** | present | you | fakes |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fake=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, they were enemies all along

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t5:o4:1
# text = No, they were enemies all along
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	along	along	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | they | enemies |  |  |  | along *property* | tree rules |

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