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Test 10 · Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"

A boy sneers: "Your mum fell for the was-£50 sign, she's so thick." What is a fair way to laugh about it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, mum · What happens: sneer, fall, be, laugh · To what, where: fair way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 176 «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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 boy sneers: "Your mum fell for the was-£50 sign, she's so thick."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sneers	nsubj
3	sneers	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
6	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sneers	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	15 sign	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sign	det
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sign	cop
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sign	punct
13	£	£	SYM	_	15 sign	compound
14	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 £	nummod
15	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thick	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thick	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 thick	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 thick	advmod
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sneers	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sneers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneer	present	a boy						tree rules
2	fall in a quote	past	Your mum						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	past						for the £ sign	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	mum					thick property	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 a fair way to laugh about it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 laugh	mark
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair way					tree rules
2	laugh	to-infinitive						about way	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Laugh at her loudly so she never trusts a shop sign again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Laugh	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 trusts	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trusts	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 trusts	advmod
8	trusts	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sign	det
10	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	compound
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trusts	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 trusts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					at her = she; loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not trust	present	she	a shop sign			again		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme

Option 2

Pretend the trick wasn't there at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trick	det
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pretend	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 trick	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Pretend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here	the trick		all			tree rules
2	not is	past	the trick not said here					there property	tree rules

Option 3

Tell everyone in class she can't count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 count	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 count	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 count	advmod
8	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 class	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone	class			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	not count	can	she	class not said here					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Laugh at the sign's trick, not at the person it fooled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 trick	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sign	case
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 person	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 person	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fooled	nsubj
13	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 person	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here			the sign's trick		at the person	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fool	past	person	the person not said here					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
3	trick		the sign						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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