Test 10 · ★★ · Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop
A bookie's advert shows smiling winners every football break. What does it never show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: advert · What happens: show, smile, not show · To what, where: smiling winners
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life 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.
The question
Sentence 1: A bookie's advert shows smiling winners every football break.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bookie | det |
| 2 | bookie | bookie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advert | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bookie | case |
| 4 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 winners | amod |
| 7 | winners | winner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shows | obj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 break | det |
| 9 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 break | compound |
| 10 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a bookie's advert | smiling winners | every football break obl:unmarked | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent winner=Recipient | |||
| 2 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What does it never show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 show | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 show | advmod |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | present · do-support | advert | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Any people at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 people | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The many people who lost money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the many people | money | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
Option 3
The name of the betting company
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 company | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 company | det |
| 5 | betting | betting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 company | compound |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | the betting company | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
The football match itself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 match | det |
| 2 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 match | compound |
| 3 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 match | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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