Test 15 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

'only today!!' sale on these trainers should i beg dad now

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: beg · To what, where: dad

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 beg	punct
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 today	advmod
3	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beg	obl:unmarked
4	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	6 sale	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 sale	punct
6	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 today	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 trainers	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 trainers	det
9	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sale	nmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 beg	aux
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 beg	nsubj
12	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beg	obj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 beg	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	should	i		dad		now; today		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient

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

Yes, the price will rise forever after today and you'll miss it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 rise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rise	aux
6	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 rise	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 today	case
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 miss	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 miss	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 miss	aux
13	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rise	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	future	the price				today	forever property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	miss	future	you	price					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, tomorrow they'll be gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	aux:pass
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future · passive		they			tomorrow		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Yes, sales never come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	present	sales						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, rushing stops you thinking, the offer is a trick to hurry you

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 rushing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rushing	punct
3	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stops	obj
6	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trick	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 offer	det
9	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 trick	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trick	det
12	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hurry	mark
14	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trick	acl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hurry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rush	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present		you	tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the offer	a trick	tree rules
5	hurry	to-infinitive		you	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent

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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