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Test 7 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

In a cartoon, a newspaper headline says «MAN BITES DOG!» and everyone believes it at once. What should a careful reader do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: newspaper headline, MAN, everyone, careful reader · What happens: say, bite, believe, do · To what, where: cartoon, DOG · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the English 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: In a cartoon, a newspaper headline says «MAN BITES DOG!» and everyone believes it at once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 headline	det
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 headline	compound
7	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 BITES	punct
10	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 BITES	nsubj
11	BITES	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
12	DOG	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 BITES	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 BITES	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 BITES	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 believes	cc
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 believes	nsubj
17	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 believes	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 believes	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a newspaper headline			a cartoon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bite in a quote	present	MAN	DOG					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
3	believe	present	everyone	DOG					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 should a careful reader do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reader	det
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reader	amod
5	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	a careful reader						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only read the photos and the captions under them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 read	advmod
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 photos	det
4	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 captions	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 captions	det
7	captions	caption	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 photos	conj
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	the photos and the captions				under captions = caption	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Topic

Option 2

Ignore all newspapers forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 newspapers	det
3	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ignore	obj
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Ignore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	all newspapers				forever property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Read the article and check other reports

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 article	det
3	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 check	cc
5	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	conj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reports	amod
7	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	the article					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Topic
2	check	infinitive	you not said here	other reports					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Theme

Option 4

Believe all headlines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 headlines	det
3	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here	all headlines					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headline=Stimulus

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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