Test 10 · ★ · Chain messages, lures and scam messages

chain msg says forward to 10 ppl or bad luck forever

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: chain msg · What happens: say · To what, where: 10 ppl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 msg	compound
2	msg	msg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ppl	case
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 ppl	nummod
7	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	3 says	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 luck	cc
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 luck	amod
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ppl	conj
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	chain msg		10 ppl or bad luck			forever, forward property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient

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

Forward it to only five people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forward	forward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Forward	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 five	advmod
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Forward	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forward	imperative	you not said here	it	five people				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to people=Destination

Option 2

Forward it fast just to be safe, you never know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forward	forward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Forward	obj
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Forward	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 safe	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 safe	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Forward	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Forward	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forward	imperative	you not said here	it	fast property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here		safe property	tree rules
3	not know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ignore it, nothing bad will happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 happen	punct
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 happen	nsubj
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nothing	amod
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 happen	aux
7	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ignore	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	happen	future	nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Reply asking who wrote it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Reply	xcomp
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asking	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	write	past		it	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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