Test 7 · ★★ · Unit prices and sales that are not really sales

Sam yells "lies!" at a cereal box covered in strawberries with only 3 g of fruit in every 100 g. What's going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: yell, cover, go on · To what, where: lies, cereal box, 100 g. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 yells	nsubj
2	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct
4	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 yells	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 box	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 box	det
9	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	compound
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yells	obl
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 box	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 strawberries	case
13	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covered	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 g	case
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 3	advmod
16	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 g	nummod
17	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yells	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fruit	case
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 g	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 g.	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 g.	det
22	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 g.	nummod
23	g.	G.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 going	obl
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 going	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 yells	ccomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 going	compound:prt
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 yells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present	Sam	lies	a cereal box	with 3 g of fruit	tree rules
2	cover	participle		a cereal box not said here		in strawberries	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in strawberry=Theme
3	go on	present · progressive			every 100 g.		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in g.=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

The picture is an advert; the ingredients tell the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 picture	det
2	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advert	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 advert	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 advert	det
5	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ingredients	det
8	ingredients	ingredient	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 advert	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 truth	det
11	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the picture	a advert					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the ingredients	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 2

The shop stole the strawberries

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 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strawberries	det
5	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	the shop	the strawberries					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strawberry=Theme

Option 3

The strawberries melted in the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strawberries	det
2	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melted	nsubj
3	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 box	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	the strawberries			the box			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Pictures on boxes must show exactly what's inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 boxes	case
3	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pictures	nmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 show	aux
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 show	obj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	cop
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	must	Pictures on boxes					inside property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present						exactly property	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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