Test 4 · Keep yourself private, and voices that lie
In a cartoon, a shark photo goes viral and everyone believes it at once. What should the characters have done?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shark photo, everyone · What happens: go, believe, do · To what, where: cartoon, photo, characters
This is test 4 of lesson 12 «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» of the AI 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.
The question
Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a shark photo goes viral and everyone believes it at once.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 photo | det |
| 6 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 photo | compound |
| 7 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | viral | viral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goes | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 believes | cc |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 believes | nsubj |
| 12 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 goes | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 believes | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 believes | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a shark photo | a cartoon | viral property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | believe | present | everyone | photo | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: What should the characters have done?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 done | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 characters | det |
| 4 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should · perfect · passive | the characters | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Shared it faster than everyone else in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shared | obj |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Shared | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 everyone | case |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 faster | obl |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 everyone | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | it | town | fast property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Checked who posted it first and trusted news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 posted | nsubj |
| 3 | posted | post | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Checked | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 posted | obj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Checked | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 news | cc |
| 7 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Checked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | participle | first property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | post | past | it | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Added a bigger shark and reshared it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shark | det |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 shark | amod |
| 4 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Added | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reshared | cc |
| 6 | reshared | reshar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Added | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reshared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | a bigger shark | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Patient | |||||
| 2 | reshar | past | shark | tree rules |
Option 4
Gone outside to look for the shark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 1 Gone | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Gone | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 shark | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shark | det |
| 7 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | for the shark | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shark=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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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