Test 1 · ★ · Chain messages, lures and scam messages
A girl gets a message: «Share this or your phone will explode tonight». What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, phone · What happens: get, share, explode, be · To what, where: message, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 282 «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» 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 gets a message: «Share this or your phone will explode tonight».
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 | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 message | det |
| 5 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Share | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Share | punct |
| 8 | Share | share | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | parataxis |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Share | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 explode | cc |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 phone | nmod:poss |
| 12 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 explode | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 explode | aux |
| 14 | explode | explode | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Share | conj |
| 15 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 explode | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 Share | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a girl | a message | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share in a quote | infinitive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | explode in a quote | future | your phone | tonight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Phones really can explode if you don't share the message in time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 explode | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 explode | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 explode | aux |
| 4 | explode | explode | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 share | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 share | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 share | advmod |
| 9 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 explode | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 message | det |
| 11 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 share | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 share | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explode | can | Phones | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not share a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | the message | time | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
She must share it with everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 share | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 share | aux |
| 3 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 share | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 everyone | case |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 share | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | must | She | it | with everyone | tree rules |
Option 3
She should turn off her phone forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 turn | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 phone | nmod:poss |
| 6 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obj |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 turn | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn off | should | She | her phone | forever property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It is a frightening chain message; nothing will happen
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 message | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 message | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 message | det |
| 4 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 message | amod |
| 5 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 message | compound |
| 6 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 happen | punct |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 message | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a frightening chain message | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | future | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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