Test 8 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

An idea seems to be everywhere online because the same post appears thousands of times. What should you keep in mind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: idea, same post, you · What happens: seem, be, appear, keep · To what, where: thousands, mind

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: An idea seems to be everywhere online because the same post appears thousands of times.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 everywhere	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 everywhere	cop
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 seems	xcomp
7	online	online	ADV	_	3 seems	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 appears	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 post	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 post	amod
11	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appears	nsubj
12	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seems	advcl
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 appears	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 times	case
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thousands	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	a idea		online property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	a idea not said here		everywhere property	tree rules
3	appear	present	the same post	thousands of times		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme

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 you keep in mind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 keep	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 mind	case
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should	you			mind			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in mind=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bots can make an idea look more popular than it really is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 popular	advmod
8	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 popular	obl
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 is	advmod
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	can	Bots	a idea		tree rules
2	look	infinitive	a idea not said here		popular property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	be	present	Bots not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Anything posted thousands of times must be true, or someone would have stopped it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 true	nsubj
2	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Anything	acl
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 posted	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 times	case
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 true	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 stopped	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stopped	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 stopped	aux
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 true	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	post	participle		thousands of times		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
2	is	must	Anything		true property	tree rules
3	stop	would · perfect	someone	it		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

Option 3

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 posts	amod
2	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 checked	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 checked	aux:pass
4	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 experts	case
6	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 checked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present · passive	experts	Popular posts					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

Only real people can post online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 post	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 post	aux
5	post	post	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	online	online	ADV	_	5 post	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	can	real people					online property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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