--- title: Monty told his friends the pool was closed. Six kids stopped coming,… — Friends who only come for the pool: ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Monty told his friends the pool was closed. Six kids stopped coming, then one came back when he heard it was open again. How many true friends does that suggest Monty has from the twelve? 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How many true friends does that suggest Monty has from the twelve? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Monty, Six kids, one, pool, it, many true friends · **What happens:** tell, close, stop, come, come back, hear · **To what, where:** friends, pool, twelve · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Monty told his friends the pool was closed. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t9:1 # text = Monty told his friends the pool was closed. 1 Monty Monty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 iobj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Monty | | Monty's friends | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **close** | past · passive | | the pool | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:* Six kids stopped coming, then one came back when he heard it was open again. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t9:2 # text = Six kids stopped coming, then one came back when he heard it was open again. 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nsubj _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | Six kids | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **come** | gerund | Six kids *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come back** | past | one | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past | pool | | | | again | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past | it | | | | | open *property* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* How many true friends does that suggest Monty has from the twelve? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t9:3 # text = How many true friends does that suggest Monty has from the twelve? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 7 suggest suggest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 Monty Monty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · do-support | many true friends | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | Monty | | | the twelve | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Six ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t9:o1:1 # text = Six 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t9:o2:1 # 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 3 {#o3} Twelve ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t9:o3:1 # text = Twelve 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Seven ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours:t9:o4:1 # text = Seven 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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