Test 9 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…
A boy finds a fact on Wikipedia with no reference after it. What is wise?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: find, be · To what, where: fact, Wikipedia
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A boy finds a fact on Wikipedia with no reference after it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fact | det |
| 5 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Wikipedia | case |
| 7 | Wikipedia | Wikipedia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fact | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 reference | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 reference | det |
| 10 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finds | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a boy | a fact | Wikipedia | after reference | with no reference | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Topic |
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 is wise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wise | cop |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wise property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Check it in another trusted source before relying on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Check | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 source | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 source | det |
| 5 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 source | amod |
| 6 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Check | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 relying | mark |
| 8 | relying | rely | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Check | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 relying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | it | another trusted source | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rely | gerund | you not said here | on source | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on it=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Use it, because Wikipedia articles cannot be edited by just anybody
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Use | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 edited | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 edited | mark |
| 5 | Wikipedia | Wikipedia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 articles | compound |
| 6 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 edited | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 edited | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 edited | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 edited | aux:pass |
| 10 | edited | edit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Use | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 anybody | case |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 anybody | advmod |
| 13 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 edited | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | it | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not edit | can · passive | anybody | Wikipedia articles | tree rules |
Option 3
Add a made-up reference himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reference | det |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reference | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Add | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a made reference | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Trust it more because it has no reference
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Trust | obj |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Trust | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Trust | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 reference | det |
| 8 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | imperative | you not said here | it | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | it | no reference | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reference=Patient |
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