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title: Mo groans, "An ad every 3 minutes, this is doing my head in, bro." H… — Adverts and how they work on you · tree and pragmatics
description: Mo groans, "An ad every 3 minutes, this is doing my head in, bro." He plays for an hour. How many ads? Test 5 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 5 · Adverts and how they work on you

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Mo groans, "An ad every 3 minutes, this is doing my head in, bro." He plays for an hour. How many ads?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mo, this · **What happens:** groan, do, play · **To what, where:** ad, head

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This is test 5 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money 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/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mo groans, "An ad every 3 minutes, this is doing my head in, bro."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:t5:1
# text = Mo groans, "An ad every 3 minutes, this is doing my head in, bro."
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **groan** | present | Mo | a ad |  |  | minute |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | this | my head |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |

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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:* He plays for an hour.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:t5:2
# text = He plays for an hour.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Mo |  |  |  | hour |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* How many ads?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:t5:3
# text = How many ads?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ads	ad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:t5:o1:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:t5:o2:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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60

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:t5:o3:1
# text = 60
1	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:t5:o4:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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