Test 2 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true
A pizza on TV has cheese stretching a metre long, but yours does not. Was the advert showing a normal pizza?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pizza, cheese, yours, advert · What happens: have, stretch, not do, be, show · To what, where: cheese, advert, normal pizza
This is test 2 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A pizza on TV has cheese stretching a metre long, but yours does not.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pizza | det |
| 2 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 TV | case |
| 4 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pizza | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cheese | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 metre | det |
| 9 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 long | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stretching | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 does | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 does | cc |
| 13 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 does | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 does | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a pizza on TV | cheese | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stretch | gerund | cheese not said here | long property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not do | present | yours | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: Was the advert showing a normal pizza?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advert | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 advert | det |
| 3 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 advert | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pizza | det |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pizza | amod |
| 7 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showing | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 advert | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the advert | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | gerund | the advert not said here | a normal pizza | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pizza=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, the TV pizza was smaller
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 smaller | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pizza | det |
| 4 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pizza | compound |
| 5 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smaller | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smaller | cop |
| 7 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the TV pizza | small property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, but only at the restaurant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 restaurant | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 restaurant | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 restaurant | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 restaurant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 restaurant | det |
| 7 | restaurant | restaurant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, your pizza is just broken or was cooked badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 broken | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pizza | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 broken | aux:pass |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 broken | advmod |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 cooked | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cooked | aux:pass |
| 10 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 broken | conj |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 cooked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | your pizza | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cook | past · passive | badly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, advert food is styled to look perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 styled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 food | compound |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 styled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 styled | aux:pass |
| 6 | styled | style | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 styled | xcomp |
| 9 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | style | present · passive | advert food | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | perfect property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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