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Test 8 · «Only one left!»: shops and adverts

In a cartoon, the hero buys a «magic» product from an advert and it works perfectly. What happens more often in real life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero · What happens: buy, work, happen · To what, where: magic product, cartoon, real life

This is test 8 of lesson 441 ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, the hero buys a «magic» product from an advert and it works perfectly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buys	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hero	det
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buys	nsubj
7	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 product	det
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 magic	punct
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 product	compound
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 magic	punct
12	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buys	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 advert	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 advert	det
15	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buys	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 works	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 works	nsubj
18	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 buys	conj
19	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	18 works	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 buys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	the hero	a magic product		a cartoon		from a advert	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent product=Theme from advert=Source
2	work	present	hero					perfectly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What happens more often in real life?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 often	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	2 happens	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present				real life		often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It works better than the advert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 works	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 advert	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 advert	det
6	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It never arrives at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrives	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 arrives	advmod
3	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 arrives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not arrive	present	It			all			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It works much less well than the advert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 less	advmod
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 works	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 advert	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 advert	det
8	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 well	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The advert pays you back twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 advert	det
2	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pays	nsubj
3	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pays	iobj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 pays	advmod
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 pays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	present	the advert		you			twice property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset

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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