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title: «Grace is so mean but I gotta make her like me». What did Lily decide? — What a real friend is · tree and pragmatics
description: «Grace is so mean but I gotta make her like me». What did Lily decide? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 485 «What a real friend is» 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 2 · ★★★ · What a real friend is

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«Grace is so mean but I gotta make her like me». What did Lily decide?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grace, I, Lily · **What happens:** be, gotta, make, like, decide · **To what, where:** Grace, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 485 «What a real friend is» 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/485-what-a-real-friend-is/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Grace is so mean but I gotta make her like me».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is:t2:1
# text = «Grace is so mean but I gotta make her like me».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gotta	gotta	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grace |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gotta** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | Grace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **like** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grace *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=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 did Lily decide?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is:t2:2
# text = What did Lily decide?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past · do-support | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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She didn't need her, polite was enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is:t2:o1:1
# text = She didn't need her, polite was enough
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | past · do-support | She | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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She became just like Grace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is:t2:o2:1
# text = She became just like Grace
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | She |  |  |  |  | like Grace | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She tried even harder to please her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is:t2:o3:1
# text = She tried even harder to please her
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | She |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **please** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She stopped talking to everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:485-what-a-real-friend-is:t2:o4:1
# text = She stopped talking to everyone
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to everyone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to everyone=Co-Agent |

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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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