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description: In a cartoon, the hero buys a «magic» product from an advert and it works perfectly. What happens more often in real life? Test 8 of lesson 441 ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 8 · «Only one left!»: shops and adverts

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In a cartoon, the hero buys a «magic» product from an advert and it works perfectly. What happens more often in real life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** buy, work, happen · **To what, where:** magic product, cartoon, real life

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This is test 8 of lesson 441 ««Only one left!»: shops 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/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, the hero buys a «magic» product from an advert and it works perfectly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon, the hero buys a «magic» product from an advert and it works perfectly.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | the hero | a magic product |  | a cartoon |  | from a advert | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent product=Theme from advert=Source |
| 2 | **work** | present | hero |  |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «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:* What happens more often in real life?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t8:2
# text = What happens more often in real life?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  | real life |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It works better than the advert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t8:o1:1
# text = It works better than the advert
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | It |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It never arrives at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t8:o2:1
# text = It never arrives at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It works much less well than the advert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t8:o3:1
# text = It works much less well than the advert
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | It |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The advert pays you back twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t8:o4:1
# text = The advert pays you back twice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay back** | present | the advert |  | you |  |  | twice *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |

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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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