Test 9 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

You still really want a skateboard a whole month after seeing an advert. What does that suggest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, that · What happens: want, see, suggest · To what, where: skateboard, advert

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: You still really want a skateboard a whole month after seeing an advert.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skateboard	det
6	skateboard	skateboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 month	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 month	amod
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obl:unmarked
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 seeing	mark
11	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 want	advcl
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 advert	det
13	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seeing	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	infinitive	You	a skateboard			still; month		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skateboard=Theme
2	see	gerund	You not said here	a advert					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advert=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.

Sentence 2: What does that suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	that						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

You should never buy anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 buy	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 buy	advmod
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	should	You	anything					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is probably a real wish, not just an advert's push

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	cop
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 wish	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wish	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wish	amod
6	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 push	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 push	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	13 push	advmod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 advert	det
11	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 push	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 advert	case
13	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a real wish and a advert's push				probably property	tree rules
2	push		a advert						nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The advert tricked you even more and you should forget it now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 advert	det
2	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	nsubj
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tricked	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 tricked	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 forget	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 forget	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tricked	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forget	obj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the advert	you					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	forget	should	you	advert			now		tree rules

Option 4

You must buy two of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 buy	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 buy	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 two	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	must	You	two of them					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme

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