Test 11 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

youtuber says best headphones ever, buy them now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: youtuber · What happens: say, buy · To what, where: best headphones, headphones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 334 «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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	youtuber	youtuber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 headphones	amod
4	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 says	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buy	punct
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 buy	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	youtuber	best headphones			ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent headphone=Topic
2	buy	infinitive	youtuber not said here	headphones = headphone			now		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Check if it's #ad and read real reviews

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 ad	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ad	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ad	cop
5	#	#	SYM	Number=Sing	6 ad	compound
6	ad	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Check	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 read	cc
8	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Check	conj
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reviews	amod
10	reviews	review	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	it	# ad	tree rules
3	read	present	you not said here	real reviews	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent review=Topic

Option 2

Buy if he has many fans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Buy	advcl
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fans	amod
6	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here						vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	have a condition, not said to happen	present	he	many fans					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Patient

Option 3

Buy now, he knows best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Buy	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Buy	parataxis
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here				now		vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	he	best					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus

Option 4

Buy two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	two					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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