Exam question 1 · Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies

Determine the legal term which denotes the publication of false statements injurious to the reputation of a person.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, legal term · What happens: determine, denote, publish, repute · To what, where: legal term, publication, false statements, person

This is exam question 1 of lesson 47 «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 term	det
3	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 term	amod
4	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 denotes	nsubj
6	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 term	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 publication	det
8	publication	publication	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denotes	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 statements	case
10	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 statements	amod
11	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 publication	nmod
12	injurious	injurious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 statements	amod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 reputation	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reputation	det
15	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 injurious	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 person	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reputation	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the legal term	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic
2	denote	present	the legal term	the publication of false statements	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot publication=Topic
3	publish			false statements	nom publication «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	repute			a person	nom reputation «state transitive»: of=patient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Correction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Advertisement	advertisement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Defamation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Defamation	defamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Satire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Satire	satire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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