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title: A pizza on TV has cheese stretching a metre long, but yours does not… — Advert tricks and offers that are too… · tree and pragmatics
description: A pizza on TV has cheese stretching a metre long, but yours does not. Was the advert showing a normal pizza? Test 2 · ★★ 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 
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

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A pizza on TV has cheese stretching a metre long, but yours does not. Was the advert showing a normal pizza?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pizza, cheese, yours, advert · **What happens:** have, stretch, not do, be, show · **To what, where:** cheese, advert, normal pizza

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This is test 2 · ★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A pizza on TV has cheese stretching a metre long, but yours does not.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t2:1
# text = A pizza on TV has cheese stretching a metre long, but yours does not.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a pizza on TV | cheese |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient |
| 2 | **stretch** | gerund | cheese *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present | yours |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Was the advert showing a normal pizza?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t2:2
# text = Was the advert showing a normal pizza?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the advert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | the advert *not said here* | a normal pizza |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pizza=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, the TV pizza was smaller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t2:o1:1
# text = No, the TV pizza was smaller
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the TV pizza |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, but only at the restaurant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t2:o2:1
# text = Yes, but only at the restaurant
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, your pizza is just broken or was cooked badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t2:o3:1
# text = Yes, your pizza is just broken or was cooked badly
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | your pizza |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **cook** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, advert food is styled to look perfect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers:t2:o4:1
# text = No, advert food is styled to look perfect
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	styled	style	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **style** | present · passive |  | advert food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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