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Test 7 · Adverts and how they work on you

In a cartoon, a talking cereal box promises you'll fly if you eat it. What should a kid think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cereal box, you, kid · What happens: promise, fly, eat, think · To what, where: cartoon, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: In a cartoon, a talking cereal box promises you'll fly if you eat it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promises	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 box	det
6	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cereal	compound
7	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	compound
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promises	nsubj
9	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 fly	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 promises	ccomp
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 eat	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 eat	nsubj
15	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 promises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	a cereal box			a cartoon			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	future	you						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	you	box					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 should a kid think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	should	a kid						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ads make big promises to sell; cereal can't make you fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ads	ad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 promises	amod
4	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promises	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
8	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Ads	big promises					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product
2	sell	to-infinitive	Ads not said here	big promises not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	not make	can	cereal	you					tree rules
4	not fly	infinitive	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It's only true if you eat the whole box

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 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 eat	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 box	amod
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the whole box					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient

Option 3

It's true but only on weekends

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	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 weekends	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 weekends	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 weekends	case
7	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules

Option 4

It's true, cereal gives you super powers

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	_	6 gives	punct
5	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 gives	iobj
8	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 powers	amod
9	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	give	present	cereal	super powers	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=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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