--- title: Jasper says no to buying snacks. Two of the five kids stop talking t… — Friends who only come for the pool: ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Jasper says no to buying snacks. Two of the five kids stop talking to him. How many stayed his friends? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Friends who only come for the pool: ri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★ · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours Jasper says no to buying snacks. Two of the five kids stop talking to him. How many stayed his friends? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jasper, five kids, many · **What happens:** say, buy, stop, talk, stay · **To what, where:** no, snacks, Jasper, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Jasper says no to buying snacks. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t2:1 # text = Jasper says no to buying snacks. 1 Jasper Jasper PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 obj _ _ 4 to to SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 buying buy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 snacks snack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jasper | no | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 2 | **buy** | gerund | Jasper *not said here* | snacks | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Two of the five kids stop talking to him. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t2:2 # text = Two of the five kids stop talking to him. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 of of SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | the five kids | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | the five kids *not said here* | | Jasper | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | *Sentence 3:* How many stayed his friends? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t2:3 # text = How many stayed his friends? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | past | many | Jasper's friends | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t2:o1:1 # text = Five 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Seven ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t2:o2:1 # text = Seven 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t2:o3:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t2:o4:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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