Test 1 · ★ · The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines

«bro this cereal says best breakfast ever so it's healthy right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cereal · What happens: say, be · To what, where: best breakfast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 47 «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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	_	2 bro	punct
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	vocative
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cereal	det
4	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 breakfast	amod
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 says	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 right	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
12	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 right	amod
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 right	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	this cereal	best breakfast	ever	bro vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent breakfast=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	cereal			right property	tree rules
3	is	present				right 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

No, cereal can never be part of a good breakfast for anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 part	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 part	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 part	cop
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 breakfast	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 breakfast	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breakfast	amod
11	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 anybody	case
13	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 breakfast	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	cereal	part				of a good breakfast for anybody	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, gold letters are only allowed on healthy food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 allowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letters	compound
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 allowed	aux:pass
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 allowed	advmod
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		gold letters		healthy food			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 3

Yes, the box would not say it unless it was healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obj
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	12 healthy	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 healthy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 healthy	cop
12	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	the box	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	box					healthy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, «best ever» is an opinion; read the label for sugar

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 best	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 opinion	csubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 best	advmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 opinion	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 opinion	det
9	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 read	punct
11	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 opinion	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 label	det
13	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 read	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 sugar	case
15	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a opinion					tree rules
2	read	infinitive		the label				for sugar	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic

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