Test 4 · ★★ · Viral facts and chain messages
A post says typing a code gets you free credit. What would really happen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: post, typing · What happens: say, type, get, happen · To what, where: code, free credit, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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: A post says typing a code gets you free credit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 post | det |
| 2 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | typing | type | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 gets | csubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 code | det |
| 6 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 typing | obj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 gets | obj |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 credit | amod |
| 10 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a post | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | type | gerund | a code | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | typing | free credit | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary credit=Theme |
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 would really happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Your battery would last forever
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 battery | nmod:poss |
| 2 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 last | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 last | aux |
| 4 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 last | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | would | Your battery | forever property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
You'd get £10 free credit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 credit | amod |
| 7 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | You | free credit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent £=Beneficiary credit=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nothing good; some codes change phone settings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 codes | det |
| 5 | codes | code | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 change | nsubj |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 settings | compound |
| 8 | settings | setting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 change | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | some codes | phone settings | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent setting=Patient |
Option 4
Your phone would get faster
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 phone | nmod:poss |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | Your phone | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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