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# Test 3 · ★★★ · The friend who only calls when they need something

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Mia's sad and Ava hasn't texted once, but she was round every day for the new game. What does that tell Mia?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ava, that · **What happens:** not text, be, tell · **To what, where:** Ava, Mia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 470 «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia's sad and Ava hasn't texted once, but she was round every day for the new game.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t3:1
# text = Mia's sad and Ava hasn't texted once, but she was round every day for the new game.
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	texted	text	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **text** | present · perfect · passive |  | Ava |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ava |  |  |  | day | for the new game; round *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:* What does that tell Mia?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t3:2
# text = What does that tell Mia?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | that |  | Mia |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Ava is shy about sadness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t3:o1:1
# text = Ava is shy about sadness
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ava |  |  |  |  | about sadness; shy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ava is a fair-weather friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t3:o2:1
# text = Ava is a fair-weather friend
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ava | a weather friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ava's phone is broken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t3:o3:1
# text = Ava's phone is broken
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | Ava's phone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ava is her truest friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t3:o4:1
# text = Ava is her truest friend
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	truest	true	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ava | Ava's truest friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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