--- title: Kieran: «my brother's chatting rubbish, me and Tom are forever». Wha… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics description: Kieran: «my brother's chatting rubbish, me and Tom are forever». What's true by Year 5? Test 8 · ★★★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/464-growing-apart/t8/) [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/) / [Growing apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/464-growing-apart/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★★ · Growing apart Kieran: «my brother's chatting rubbish, me and Tom are forever». What's true by Year 5? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** chat, be This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Kieran: «my brother's chatting rubbish, me and Tom are forever». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t8:1 # text = Kieran: «my brother's chatting rubbish, me and Tom are forever». 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 chatting chat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 forever forever ADV RB _ 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chat** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | forever *property* | tree rules | 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's true by Year 5? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t8:2 # text = What's true by Year 5? 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 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | by Year | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Brothers always lie about friends ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t8:o1:1 # text = Brothers always lie about friends 1 Brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | Brothers | | | | | about friends; always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about friend=Location | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Friendships often change, and that's normal ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t8:o2:1 # text = Friendships often change, and that's normal 1 Friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Friendships | | | | | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | that | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Kieran and Tom became twins ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t8:o3:1 # text = Kieran and Tom became twins 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 twins twin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Kieran and Tom | twins | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Kieran never makes new friends ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t8:o4:1 # text = Kieran never makes new friends 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **make** | present | Kieran | new friends | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | **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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