Test 7 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…
Why might a famous gamer praise a headset in every video?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 praise | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 praise | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 praise | det |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 praise | amod |
| 5 | gamer | gamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 praise | compound |
| 6 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 headset | det |
| 8 | headset | headset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 praise | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 video | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 video | det |
| 11 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 headset | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 praise | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Headsets are all the same anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Headsets | headset | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 same | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Headsets | all, anyway, same property | tree rules |
Option 2
Gamers must praise their equipment by law
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gamers | gamer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 praise | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 praise | aux |
| 3 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 equipment | nmod:poss |
| 5 | equipment | equipment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praise | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praise | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | must | Gamers | Gamers's equipment | by law | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipment=Theme |
Option 3
Famous people only ever say what they truly think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 think | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 8 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 9 think | advmod |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Famous people | ever | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | people | truly property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The company may be paying her to praise it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 company | det |
| 2 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paying | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 paying | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 paying | aux |
| 5 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 paying | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 praise | mark |
| 8 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 paying | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 praise | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | may · progressive | the company | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | praise | to-infinitive | the company not said here | company | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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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