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title: In a heated class argument about politics, what keeps friends friends? — China: modern China, space and contest… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a heated class argument about politics, what keeps friends friends? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 59 «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · China: modern China, space and contested topics

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In a heated class argument about politics, what keeps friends friends?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** heat, keep · **To what, where:** friends friends, heated class argument

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 59 «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history 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/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics:t11:1
# text = In a heated class argument about politics, what keeps friends friends?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  | friends friends |  | a heated class argument about politics |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme in argument=Location |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Facts first, name the dispute, no insults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics:t11:o1:1
# text = Facts first, name the dispute, no insults
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	name	name	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	insults	insult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | infinitive | Facts | the dispute and no insults |  |  |  | first *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pretend nothing exists

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics:t11:o2:1
# text = Pretend nothing exists
1	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Never talk to each other again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics:t11:o3:1
# text = Never talk to each other again
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obl	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again | to each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Whoever shouts loudest wins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics:t11:o4:1
# text = Whoever shouts loudest wins
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	wins	win	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Whoever | loudest wins |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent win=Topic |

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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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