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title: Mia's teacher says Comic Sans is fine for a party invite but not a s… — Design all around: logos, brands, pack… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia's teacher says Comic Sans is fine for a party invite but not a serious report. Why? Test 8 of lesson 33 «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 8 · Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts

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Mia's teacher says Comic Sans is fine for a party invite but not a serious report. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, Comic · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 33 «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» of the arts 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia's teacher says Comic Sans is fine for a party invite but not a serious report.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts:t8:1
# text = Mia's teacher says Comic Sans is fine for a party invite but not a serious report.
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Comic	Comic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Sans	Sans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mia's teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Comic |  |  |  |  | for a party invite but a serious report; fine *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts:t8:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Serious reports can only use one font

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts:t8:o1:1
# text = Serious reports can only use one font
1	Serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	font	font	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | can | Serious reports | one font |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent font=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Party invites must be handwritten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts:t8:o2:1
# text = Party invites must be handwritten
1	Party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	invites	invite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	handwritten	handwrite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handwrite** | must · passive |  | Party invites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fonts carry a mood and suit different jobs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts:t8:o3:1
# text = Fonts carry a mood and suit different jobs
1	Fonts	font	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Fonts | a mood |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Theme |
| 2 | **suit** | present | Fonts *not said here* | different jobs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Comic Sans is illegal in reports

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:33-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts:t8:o4:1
# text = Comic Sans is illegal in reports
1	Comic	Comic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Sans	Sans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Comic |  |  | reports |  | illegal *property* | tree rules |

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**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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