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Test 9 · ★ · Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet

You see a mirage of water on a desert road. If you drive there, what will you find?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: see, drive, find · To what, where: mirage, desert road

This is test 9 · ★ 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: You see a mirage of water on a desert road.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mirage	det
4	mirage	mirage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mirage	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 road	compound
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You	a mirage of water		a desert road			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirage=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: If you drive there, what will you find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 drive	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 drive	nsubj
3	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 find	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drive	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drive	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 find	obj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive a condition, not said to happen	present	you			there			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	find	future	you						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

A small lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lake	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lake	amod
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Wet sand from an old river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sand	amod
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 river	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sand	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A dry road, because it was only bent light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 road	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 road	amod
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 light	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 light	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 light	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 light	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 light	advmod
9	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 light	amod
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 road	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	bent light					tree rules

Option 4

Puddles of tar that melted in the hot sun and spread out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 melted	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 tar	case
3	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Puddles	nmod
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 melted	nsubj
5	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sun	amod
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melted	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spread	cc
11	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 melted	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 spread	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	Puddles of tar			the hot sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	spread out	infinitive	Puddles of tar not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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