Test 16 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

spent all my money on loot boxes, got nothing good

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: spend, get · To what, where: money, loot boxes, nothing

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 money	det:predet
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 spent	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 boxes	case
6	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boxes	compound
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 spent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 spent	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 got	obj
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past		my money				on loot boxes goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on box=Goal
2	get	past		nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a parent; loot boxes are like gambling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parent	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 gambling	punct
5	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boxes	compound
6	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gambling	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gambling	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 gambling	case
9	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
2	is	present	loot boxes					like gambling	tree rules

Option 2

Hide it so no one knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 knows	mark
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	know	present	no one						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Borrow money to try again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Borrow	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 try	mark
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Borrow	advcl
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 try	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	imperative	you not said here	money					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	try	to-infinitive	you not said here				again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Spend more, the next one is bound to be good, they always pay out

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Spend	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bound	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bound	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bound	cop
8	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spend	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	11 good	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 good	cop
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bound	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pay	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pay	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 pay	advmod
15	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spend	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 pay	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	more		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset
2	is	present	the next one		bound property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	the next one not said here		good property	tree rules
4	pay out	present	they		always property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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