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title: 'only today!!' sale on these trainers should i beg dad now — Advert tricks and offers that are too… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'only today!!' sale on these trainers should i beg dad now Test 15 · ★★ of lesson 281 «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 15 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

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'only today!!' sale on these trainers should i beg dad now

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** beg · **To what, where:** dad

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This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 281 «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday 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/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t15:1
# text = 'only today!!' sale on these trainers should i beg dad now
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | should | i |  | dad |  | now; today |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, the price will rise forever after today and you'll miss it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t15:o1:1
# text = Yes, the price will rise forever after today and you'll miss it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | future | the price |  |  |  | today | forever *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **miss** | future | you | price |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, tomorrow they'll be gone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t15:o2:1
# text = Yes, tomorrow they'll be gone
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	gone	go	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 | **go** | future · passive |  | they |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, sales never come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t15:o3:1
# text = Yes, sales never come back
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sales	sale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come back** | present | sales |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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No, rushing stops you thinking, the offer is a trick to hurry you

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t15:o4:1
# text = No, rushing stops you thinking, the offer is a trick to hurry you
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the offer | a trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurry** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent |

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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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