Test 10 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

game says 50 coins for mystery box, worth it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: game · What happens: say · To what, where: 50 coins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 281 «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» 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	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 coins	nummod
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 box	case
6	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coins	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worth	punct
9	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worth	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	game	50 coins				for mystery box	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent coin=Topic

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

Only if you buy ten at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 buy	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 buy	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 buy	nsubj
4	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 buy	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	you	ten					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ten=Theme at once=Asset

Option 2

Yes, mystery boxes always hold the best items, they're worth it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boxes	compound
4	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 hold	advmod
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 worth	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 items	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 items	amod
9	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hold	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worth	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 worth	cop
13	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	mystery boxes	the best items				always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	is	present	boxes = box					worth property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, they're cheaper than buying items

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cheaper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cheaper	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheaper	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheaper	cop
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 buying	mark
7	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cheaper	advcl
8	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					cheap property	tree rules
2	buy	gerund	they not said here	items					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme

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

It's like gambling, you pay not knowing what you get

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gambling	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gambling	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 gambling	case
4	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knowing	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 knowing	nsubj
7	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 knowing	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 knowing	advmod
9	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gambling	acl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 get	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 knowing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		like gambling	tree rules
2	not know	present	you	gambling not said here		tree rules
3	get	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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