Test 4 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

Why would a company pay to put its chocolate bar in a cartoon film?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: put · To what, where: chocolate bar, cartoon film

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pay	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 company	det
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	compound
5	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 put	mark
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pay	acl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bar	nmod:poss
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bar	compound
10	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 film	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 film	det
13	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 film	compound
14	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	to-infinitive		pay's chocolate bar		a cartoon film			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bar=Theme in film=Destination

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

Children see it and want to buy it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 see	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 want	cc
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	present	Children	it	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	want	present	Children not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Children not said here	it	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

The company wants to keep it a secret

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	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 secret	det
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the company						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the company not said here	company					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

The film needs snacks for the actors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 film	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 actors	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 actors	det
7	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the film	snacks				for the actors	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snack=Theme

Option 4

Cartoons are not allowed to show other food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Cartoons					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cartoons not said here	other food					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Recipient

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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