Test 17 · ★ · Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet

did u hear a man in the desert "drove for hours to a lake that wasn't there". real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, lake · What happens: hear, drive, not be · To what, where: man, desert · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 desert	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 desert	det
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 drove	punct
10	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 hours	case
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drove	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 there	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 there	cop
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 there	advmod
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lake	acl:relcl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 there	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lesson	amod
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	a man				tree rules
2	drive in a quote	past			the desert	hour	to a lake	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to lake=Trajectory
3	not is in a quote	past	a lake				there property	tree rules

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

Deserts hide water just under the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 road	advmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Deserts	water		the road			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Patient under road=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A mirage is bent light from the sky, not water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mirage	det
2	mirage	mirage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	cop
4	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 water	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 water	advmod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a mirage	bent light and water		the sky			tree rules

Option 3

Only tired people ever see mirages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tired	advmod
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mirages	mirage	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	tired people	mirages			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirage=Stimulus

Option 4

Mirages are real lakes that dry up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mirages	mirage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lakes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lakes	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lakes	amod
4	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dry	nsubj
6	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lakes	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mirages	real lakes					tree rules
2	dry up	present	real lakes						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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