Test 13 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

500 accounts saying the same thing so it must be true

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: 500 accounts, thing · What happens: say, be · To what, where: same thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 accounts	nummod
2	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 accounts	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 true	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 true	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 true	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	500 accounts not said here	the same thing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	is	must	thing					true property	tree rules

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

Only if they use capitals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 use	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 use	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	they	capitals					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient

Option 2

Yes, that many people can't all be wrong at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrong	punct
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 wrong	mark
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrong	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wrong	advmod
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 wrong	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 wrong	cop
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	many people					all, wrong property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not always, bots repeat things to look popular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 always	advmod
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 repeat	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 always	punct
4	bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repeat	nsubj
5	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repeat	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 repeat	advcl
9	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	bots	things				always property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	bots not said here					popular property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, if they all have photos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	photos					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Patient

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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