Test 2 · Adverts and how they work on you
Your mate goes, "If a famous footballer drinks it, it must make you play better." What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, famous footballer, footballer, you · What happens: go, drink, make, play, be · To what, where: mate, you
This is test 2 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» 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
Sentence 1: Your mate goes, "If a famous footballer drinks it, it must make you play better."
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 | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 drinks | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 footballer | det |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 footballer | amod |
| 9 | footballer | footballer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drinks | nsubj |
| 10 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drinks | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drinks | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 goes | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 play | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | a famous footballer | mate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | must | footballer | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | play in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | well property | vn performance-26.7-1 «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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Footballers are banned from drinking anything else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Footballers | footballer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 banned | aux:pass |
| 3 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 drinking | mark |
| 5 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 banned | advcl |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 drinking | obj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 anything | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | present · passive | Footballers | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
Option 2
It's true, ads are checked to prove it works
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 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 works | csubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 checked | punct |
| 5 | ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 checked | aux:pass |
| 7 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 true | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 prove | mark |
| 9 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 checked | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 prove | obj |
| 11 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | present · passive | ads | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | it | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | work | present | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was paid to appear; it doesn't prove the drink helps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | aux:pass |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 helps | csubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 appear | mark |
| 5 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 paid | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 prove | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prove | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 prove | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 prove | advmod |
| 10 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 paid | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 drink | det |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prove | obj |
| 13 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not prove | present · do-support | it | the drink | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It's true, footballers only ever drink what helps them play
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 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 footballers | punct |
| 5 | footballers | footballer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drink | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 drink | advmod |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 drink | advmod |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 true | parataxis |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 helps | nsubj |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drink | ccomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 helps | obj |
| 12 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drink | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink | infinitive | footballers | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | present | footballers = footballer | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | footballers not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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