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# Test 2 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

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«Gary's always whingin, why's Dad even mates with him». What does the midnight breakdown show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** Dad mates, breakdown show

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This is test 2 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Gary's always whingin, why's Dad even mates with him».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t2:1
# text = «Gary's always whingin, why's Dad even mates with him».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gary	Gary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	whingin	whingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Dad mates |  |  |  | with Gary | 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 the midnight breakdown show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t2:2
# text = What does the midnight breakdown show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	breakdown	breakdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the breakdown show |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Gary only ever moans and never helps anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t2:o1:1
# text = Gary only ever moans and never helps anyone
1	Gary	Gary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	moans	moan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | present | Gary  moans |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Moaners are always bad friends to have

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t2:o2:1
# text = Moaners are always bad friends to have
1	Moaners	moaner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Moaners | bad friends |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The moaner may be the one who turns up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t2:o3:1
# text = The moaner may be the one who turns up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moaner	moaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | the moaner | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn up** | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dad should drop Gary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t2:o4:1
# text = Dad should drop Gary
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Gary	Gary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | should | Dad | Gary |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gary=Theme |

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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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