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Test 4 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

A girl in Wellington rushes to buy a game skin because of a «last chance» timer. What trick was used?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: rush, buy, use · To what, where: game skin, trick

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 girl in Wellington rushes to buy a game skin because of a «last chance» timer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rushes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Wellington	case
4	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rushes	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 skin	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skin	compound
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	obj
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 timer	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 because	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 timer	det
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 chance	punct
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chance	amod
16	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 timer	compound
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 chance	punct
18	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rushes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	present	a girl in Wellington						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
2	buy	to-infinitive	a girl in Wellington not said here	a game skin				because a chance timer	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

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: What trick was used?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		what trick					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Making her rush so she would not think clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 rush	nmod:poss
3	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 think	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 think	advmod
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Making	advcl
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	8 think	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		her rush					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product
2	not think speech: other	would	she					clearly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rush		her = she						nom rush «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Giving her a free trial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trial	det
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trial	amod
5	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		a free trial	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient trial=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Helping her save money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Helping	obj
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Helping	xcomp
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	gerund		her = she					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	save	infinitive	her = she not said here	money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 4

Giving her a real once-in-a-lifetime offer that will never return

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 offer	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 offer	amod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 offer	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 offer	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 offer	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 offer	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 a	punct
11	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offer	compound
12	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 return	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 return	advmod
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 offer	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		a real lifetime offer	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient offer=Theme
2	not return	future	a real lifetime offer						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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