Test 10 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

guy on game says get rich quick, just send $5

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: guy · What happens: say, get, send · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 game	case
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 guy	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quick	amod
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 send	advmod
10	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
11	$	$	SYM	_	10 send	obj
12	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 $	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	guy on game		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	infinitive		quick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	send	infinitive			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Send it, $5 is only a small amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 amount	punct
4	$	$	SYM	_	10 amount	compound
5	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 $	nummod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 amount	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 amount	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 amount	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 amount	amod
10	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	it					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present		a $ small amount					tree rules

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

Ignore it and tell an adult

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	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	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

Send it, it pays you back $50 later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pays	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pays	nsubj
5	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Send	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pays	iobj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 $	advmod
8	$	$	SYM	_	5 pays	obj
9	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 $	nummod
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	it				late property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pay	present	it		you				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient $=Asset

Option 4

Ask him to prove it works first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prove	mark
4	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 works	nsubj
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prove	ccomp
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	him = he		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	prove not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	work	present	it		first property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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