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Test 2 · ★ · The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines

Your little brother cries because the video says «You WON'T BELIEVE what happened next» and he is scared to find out. What can you tell him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, video, You · What happens: cry, say, not believe, happen, be, find out · To what, where: video · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your little brother cries because the video says «You WON'T BELIEVE what happened next» and he is scared to find out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cries	nsubj
4	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 says	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 video	det
7	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cries	advcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 BELIEVE	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 BELIEVE	nsubj
11	WO	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 BELIEVE	aux
12	N'T	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 BELIEVE	advmod
13	BELIEVE	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 BELIEVE	ccomp
16	next	next	ADV	_	15 happened	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 BELIEVE	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scared	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 scared	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 scared	cop
21	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cries	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 scared	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	Your little brother						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the video						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not believe in a quote	future	You						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen in a quote	past						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	video					scared property	tree rules
6	find out	to-infinitive	video not said here						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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 can you tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	you		video				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody believes it, so the video is empty inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 believes	nsubj
2	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believes	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 empty	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 empty	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 video	det
7	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 empty	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 empty	cop
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 believes	conj
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 empty	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	Nobody	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	present	the video					empty, inside property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's made to look huge so people click; it's probably ordinary

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 click	mark
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 click	nsubj
9	click	click	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ordinary	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordinary	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ordinary	cop
13	probably	probably	ADV	_	14 ordinary	advmod
14	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It					tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive						huge property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	click	present	people						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	is	present	it					ordinary, probably property	tree rules

Option 3

It means the video has been banned by the police

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 video	det
4	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 banned	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 banned	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 banned	aux:pass
7	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 police	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 police	det
10	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ban	present · perfect · passive	the police	the video					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 4

It is always something very scary, so never watch it

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	4 something	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 something	advmod
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 scary	advmod
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watch	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 watch	advmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 watch	advmod
10	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 something	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	something				always property	tree rules
2	not watch	infinitive		it					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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