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title: «Hiya hun, quick favour, can I borrow fifty, pay you Friday x». Four… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Hiya hun, quick favour, can I borrow fifty, pay you Friday x». Fourth time, never paid. What's sensible? Test 5 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 5 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

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«Hiya hun, quick favour, can I borrow fifty, pay you Friday x». Fourth time, never paid. What's sensible?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hun · **What happens:** borrow, pay, not pay, be · **To what, where:** fifty, you, Fourth time

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Hiya hun, quick favour, can I borrow fifty, pay you Friday x».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t5:1
# text = «Hiya hun, quick favour, can I borrow fifty, pay you Friday x».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hiya	hiya	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	hun	hun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	x	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** *in a quote* | can | hun and quick favour | fifty |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifty=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | hun and quick favour *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |

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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:* Fourth time, never paid.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t5:2
# text = Fourth time, never paid.
1	Fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	amod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pay** | participle |  | Fourth time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What's sensible?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t5:3
# text = What's sensible?
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	sensible	sensible	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 |  |  |  |  |  | sensible *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Shout at her in the street

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t5:o1:1
# text = Shout at her in the street
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the street |  | at her *= she* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lend her a hundred this time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t5:o2:1
# text = Lend her a hundred this time
1	Lend	lend	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | a hundred | her *= she* |  | time |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hundred=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lend it and say nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t5:o3:1
# text = Lend it and say nothing
1	Lend	lend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Say no, she's a one-way friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t5:o4:1
# text = Say no, she's a one-way friend
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | she | a way friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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