Test 14 · ★ · Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet

ad shows the toy car doing loops n flying, its gonna do that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ad, toy car · What happens: show, do, fly · To what, where: toy car, loops, that

This is test 14 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ad	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 car	compound
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 car	acl
7	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	obj
8	n	n	SCONJ	_	9 flying	mark
9	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 doing	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gonna	nmod:poss
12	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	13 do	dep
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	parataxis
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 do	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	present	ad	the toy car	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent car=Recipient
2	do	gerund	the toy car not said here	loops	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loop=Eventuality
3	fly	gerund	the toy car not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	infinitive		that	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Probably not, adverts show toys at their best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	5 show	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 adverts	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 not	punct
4	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
5	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 best	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 best	nmod:poss
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	adverts	toys		adverts's best		probably property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, all toys do that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 toys	det
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	all toys	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 3

Yes, adverts have to show exactly what the toy can do at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 toy	det
10	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	ccomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	have	present	adverts		tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	adverts not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	can	the toy	home	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, if you buy the batteries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 buy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 buy	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 buy	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 buy	nsubj
5	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 batteries	det
7	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	you	the batteries					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme

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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