Test 18 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true
my cousin says a girl "won an iPhone" from a random text and her mum "lost thousands". what's the bit to doubt
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, girl · What happens: say, win, lose, be, doubt · To what, where: iPhone, random text, bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 18 · ★★ 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 won | punct |
| 7 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 iPhone | det |
| 9 | iPhone | iphone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 iPhone | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 text | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 text | det |
| 13 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 text | amod |
| 14 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mum | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mum | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 text | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 thousands | amod |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 won | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 won | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 bit | nsubj |
| 24 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bit | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bit | det |
| 26 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 doubt | mark |
| 28 | doubt | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bit | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | win in a quote | past | a girl | a iPhone | a random text and girl's mum | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent iphone=Beneficiary thousand=Theme | |||
| 3 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the bit | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | doubt | to-infinitive | my cousin not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
That scams can take money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 scams | det |
| 2 | scams | scam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | that scams | money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
That she won anything; you can't win a contest you never entered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 won | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 won | nsubj |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 won | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 win | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 win | nsubj |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 win | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 win | advmod |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 won | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 contest | det |
| 11 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 win | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 entered | advmod |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 contest | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | That | anything | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not win | can | you | a contest | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not enter | past | you | a contest not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme contest=Destination |
Option 3
That texts can be scams, that's the bit that sounds made up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 texts | det |
| 2 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scams | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 scams | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scams | cop |
| 5 | scams | scam | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bit | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bit | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bit | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scams | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sounds | nsubj |
| 12 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bit | acl:relcl |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sounds | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 made | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | that texts | scams | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the bit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | the bit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make up | participle | the bit not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
That phones get messages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 phones | det |
| 2 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | that phones | messages | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer message=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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