--- title: Why do fake shops sell famous brands at very low prices? — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca… · tree and pragmatics description: Why do fake shops sell famous brands at very low prices? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the… Why do fake shops sell famous brands at very low prices? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fake shops · **What happens:** sell · **To what, where:** famous brands, low prices This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t3:1 # text = Why do fake shops sell famous brands at very low prices? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sell sell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 brands brand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | present · do-support | fake shops | famous brands | | low prices | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent brand=Theme at price=Asset | 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} Because they have lower rent than shops ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t3:o1:1 # text = Because they have lower rent than shops 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 rent rent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | they | lower rent | | | | than shops | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Because it is the end of the season ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t3:o2:1 # text = Because it is the end of the season 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | it | the end | | | season | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Because big brands quietly give away their old stock online ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t3:o3:1 # text = Because big brands quietly give away their old stock online 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brands brand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 online online ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give away** | present | big brands | brands's old stock | | | | away, online, quietly *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent stock=Theme | | 2 | **stock** | | brands *= brand* | | | | | | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} To trick people into giving card details or paying for fakes ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t3:o4:1 # text = To trick people into giving card details or paying for fakes 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 trick trick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 into into SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 fakes fake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **give** | gerund | | card details | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | gerund | | | | | | for fakes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fake=Theme | **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. 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