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Test 9 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

In a TV show, every character uses the same brand of phone. What is the most likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, likely reason · What happens: use, brand, be · To what, where: same brand, TV show, phone

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a TV show, every character uses the same brand of phone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 show	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 show	det
3	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	compound
4	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 uses	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 character	det
7	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 uses	nsubj
8	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brand	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brand	amod
11	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 uses	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 phone	case
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brand	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	every character	the same brand of phone		a TV show			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Patient
2	brand			phone					nom brand «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 the most likely reason?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reason	amod
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the likely reason						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The show was filmed in a phone shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 show	det
2	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filmed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filmed	aux:pass
4	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 shop	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shop	det
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shop	compound
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film	past · passive		the show		a phone shop			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shop=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The phone company paid for product placement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 company	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 company	compound
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 company	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 placement	case
6	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placement	compound
7	placement	placement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		the phone company not said here				for product placement	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for placement=Theme

Option 3

Only one kind of phone exists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kind	nummod
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exists	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 phone	case
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nmod
6	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	one kind of phone						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The actors all happened to own the same phone already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 actors	det
2	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 own	mark
6	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 phone	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 phone	amod
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 own	obj
10	already	already	ADV	_	6 own	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the actors					all property	tree rules
2	own	to-infinitive	the actors not said here	the same phone					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot phone=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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