Test 9 · ★★ · Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»

«SECRET TRICKS THE PROS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW» — what's usually inside?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: SECRET, PROS, YOU · What happens: trick, not want, know, be · To what, where: YOU · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 408 «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 TRICKS	punct
2	SECRET	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRICKS	nsubj
3	TRICKS	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 PROS	det
5	PROS	pro	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 WANT	nsubj
6	DO	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 WANT	aux
7	N'T	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 WANT	advmod
8	WANT	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 TRICKS	ccomp
9	YOU	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 WANT	obj
10	TO	to	PART	_	11 KNOW	mark
11	KNOW	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 WANT	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 WANT	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 TRICKS	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 inside	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 inside	cop
16	usually	usually	ADV	_	17 inside	advmod
17	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 TRICKS	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRICKS	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trick in a quote	present	SECRET			tree rules
2	not want in a quote	present · do-support	the PROS	YOU		tree rules
3	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	YOU not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present			inside, usually property	tree rules

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

Nothing, the video is empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 empty	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 video	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 video	det
4	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					empty property	tree rules

Option 2

A way to get free coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 way	acl
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coins	amod
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		free coins					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coin=Stimulus

Option 3

A real cheat that never ever gets caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cheat	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cheat	amod
3	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 caught	nsubj:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 ever	advmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 caught	advmod
7	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 caught	aux:pass
8	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cheat	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present · passive		a real cheat			ever		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ordinary tips that work if you practise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tips	amod
2	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tips	acl:relcl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 practise	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 practise	nsubj
7	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Ordinary tips						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	practise a condition, not said to happen	present	you						tree rules

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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