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title: Liam and Jake are best mates but disagree about a four-day week. Can… — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics
description: Liam and Jake are best mates but disagree about a four-day week. Can they stay friends? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Arguing politely and never calling names

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Liam and Jake are best mates but disagree about a four-day week. Can they stay friends?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Liam · **What happens:** be, disagree, stay · **To what, where:** best mates, friends

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» of the politics 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/politics/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Liam and Jake are best mates but disagree about a four-day week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t11:1
# text = Liam and Jake are best mates but disagree about a four-day week.
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Liam and Jake | best mates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disagree** | present | Liam and Jake *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Can they stay friends?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t11:2
# text = Can they stay friends?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | can | Liam | friends |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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Yes, you can disagree about ideas and still be friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, you can disagree about ideas and still be friends
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disagree** | can | you |  |  |  |  | about ideas | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | friends |  |  | still |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, friends must agree about everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t11:o2:1
# text = No, friends must agree about everything
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | must | friends |  |  |  |  | about everything | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about everything=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, one must admit the other is stupid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t11:o3:1
# text = No, one must admit the other is stupid
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | must | one | the other |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only if one of them changes school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t11:o4:1
# text = Only if one of them changes school
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | one of them | school |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Patient |

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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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