Test 3 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

Why do fake shops sell famous brands at very low prices?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fake shops · What happens: sell · To what, where: famous brands, low prices

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sell	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
3	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shops	amod
4	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	nsubj
5	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brands	amod
7	brands	brand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 prices	case
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 low	advmod
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 prices	amod
11	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · do-support	fake shops	famous brands		low prices			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent brand=Theme at price=Asset

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

Because they have lower rent than shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 rent	amod
5	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 shops	case
7	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	lower rent				than shops	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Patient

Option 2

Because it is the end of the season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 end	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 end	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 end	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 season	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 season	det
8	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nmod

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

Option 3

Because big brands quietly give away their old stock online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 give	mark
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brands	amod
3	brands	brand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	nsubj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stock	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stock	amod
9	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
10	online	online	ADV	_	5 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	present	big brands	brands's old stock				away, online, quietly property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent stock=Theme
2	stock		brands = brand						nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To trick people into giving card details or paying for fakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trick	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 giving	mark
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 trick	advcl
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 details	compound
7	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 giving	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 paying	cc
9	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 giving	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 fakes	case
11	fakes	fake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 paying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive	people		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	give	gerund	card details		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme
3	pay	gerund		for fakes	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fake=Theme

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