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title: You're the buddy for a new girl but your mates want you at football.… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: You're the buddy for a new girl but your mates want you at football. What's right? Test 5 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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 · The new kid and the first day

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You're the buddy for a new girl but your mates want you at football. What's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, mates · **What happens:** be, want · **To what, where:** buddy, you, football

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This is test 5 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You're the buddy for a new girl but your mates want you at football.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t5:1
# text = You're the buddy for a new girl but your mates want you at football.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	buddy	buddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | You | the buddy |  |  |  | for a new girl | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | your mates | you |  | football |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |

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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 right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t5:2
# text = What's right?
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	right	right	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 |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Do the buddy job properly first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t5:o1:1
# text = Do the buddy job properly first
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	buddy	buddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | the buddy job |  |  |  | first, properly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ditch her, because football's more fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t5:o2:1
# text = Ditch her, because football's more fun
1	Ditch	ditch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ditch** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  | football's more fun *obl* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Tell her to follow you around silently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t5:o3:1
# text = Tell her to follow you around silently
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **follow around** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | around, silently *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Give her to someone else secretly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t5:o4:1
# text = Give her to someone else secretly
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  | to someone; secretly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to someone=Recipient |

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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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