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Test 1 · ★ · Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet

Your friend's horoscope says Thursday is unlucky, so she wants to skip a match. What is wise?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: horoscope, Thursday · What happens: say, be, want, skip · To what, where: match · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 280 «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your friend's horoscope says Thursday is unlucky, so she wants to skip a match.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horoscope	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	horoscope	horoscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 unlucky	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 unlucky	cop
8	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wants	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 wants	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 skip	mark
14	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wants	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 match	det
16	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 skip	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend's horoscope						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Thursday					unlucky property	tree rules
3	want	present	horoscope						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	skip not said to happen	to-infinitive	horoscope not said here	a match					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=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 is wise?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wise	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wise	cop
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wise property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Skip it to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Skip	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	5 safe	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Skip	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	imperative	you not said here	it					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Change her name to stop bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Change	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Change	advcl
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 luck	amod
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	imperative	you not said here	her name					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	stop	to-infinitive	you not said here	bad luck					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality luck=Eventuality
3	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Ask the horoscope for a better day and play on that one instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horoscope	det
3	horoscope	horoscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 play	cc
9	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obl
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the horoscope			day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horoscope=Recipient
2	play	present	you not said here					on that one; instead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Play anyway, as horoscopes cannot predict the future

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Play	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 predict	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 predict	mark
5	horoscopes	horoscope	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 predict	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 predict	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 predict	advmod
8	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Play	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 future	det
10	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 predict	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here					anyway property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not predict	can	horoscopes	the future					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot future=Topic

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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