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title: an advert says "buy this perfume and he'll fall in love with you ins… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: an advert says "buy this perfume and he'll fall in love with you instantly". true? Test 22 · ★ of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 22 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

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an advert says "buy this perfume and he'll fall in love with you instantly". true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** advert · **What happens:** say, buy, fall · **To what, where:** perfume, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 22 · ★ of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/#t22).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t22:1
# text = an advert says "buy this perfume and he'll fall in love with you instantly". true?
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
16	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a advert |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this perfume |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | future | advert |  |  | love |  | with you; instantly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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Yes, but only on Valentine's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t22:o1:1
# text = Yes, but only on Valentine's Day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Valentine	Valentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No; adverts exaggerate, a smell can't make someone love you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t22:o2:1
# text = No; adverts exaggerate, a smell can't make someone love you
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	exaggerate	exaggerate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exaggerate** | present | adverts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **make** | can | a smell | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **love** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, adverts always have to tell the truth, so it must work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t22:o3:1
# text = Yes, adverts always have to tell the truth, so it must work
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | adverts |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | adverts *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 3 | **work** | must | truth |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you buy two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t22:o4:1
# text = Yes, if you buy two
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | you | two |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |

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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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