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Test 5 · ★ · The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines

«the advert truck was HUGE, why is this one tiny??» What is the best explanation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: advert truck, best explanation · What happens: be · To what, where: one

This is test 5 · ★ 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: «the advert truck was HUGE, why is this one tiny??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 HUGE	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truck	det
3	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 truck	compound
4	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 HUGE	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 HUGE	cop
6	HUGE	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 one	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 HUGE	parataxis
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	6 HUGE	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 HUGE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the advert truck					huge property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present		this one					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.

Sentence 2: What is the best explanation?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 explanation	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 explanation	amod
5	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best explanation						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The truck shrinks when you take it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 truck	det
2	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrinks	nsubj
3	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 take	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shrinks	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	the truck						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	take out	present	you	truck					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

The shop sent the wrong, smaller truck by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wrong	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 truck	punct
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 truck	amod
8	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 mistake	case
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the shop	the wrong				by mistake; smaller truck obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The camera was close up; the box says 20 cm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 camera	det
2	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 close	cop
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 close	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 box	det
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 close	conj
10	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 cm	nummod
11	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the camera					close property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the box	20 cm					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cm=Topic

Option 4

Big trucks are only sold in America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trucks	amod
2	trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sold	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sold	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 sold	advmod
5	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 America	case
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · passive		Big trucks		America			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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