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title: In a TV show, every character uses the same brand of phone. What is… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a TV show, every character uses the same brand of phone. What is the most likely reason? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

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In a TV show, every character uses the same brand of phone. What is the most likely reason?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** character, likely reason · **What happens:** use, brand, be · **To what, where:** same brand, TV show, phone

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a TV show, every character uses the same brand of phone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t9:1
# text = In a TV show, every character uses the same brand of phone.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | every character | the same brand of phone |  | a TV show |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Patient |
| 2 | **brand** |  |  | phone |  |  |  |  | nom brand «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:* What is the most likely reason?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t9:2
# text = What is the most likely reason?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the likely reason |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The show was filmed in a phone shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t9:o1:1
# text = The show was filmed in a phone shop
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **film** | past · passive |  | the show |  | a phone shop |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shop=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The phone company paid for product placement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t9:o2:1
# text = The phone company paid for product placement
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	placement	placement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  | the phone company *not said here* |  |  |  | for product placement | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for placement=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only one kind of phone exists

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t9:o3:1
# text = Only one kind of phone exists
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | one kind of phone |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The actors all happened to own the same phone already

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t9:o4:1
# text = The actors all happened to own the same phone already
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | the actors |  |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **own** | to-infinitive | the actors *not said here* | the same phone |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot phone=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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