Exam question 4 · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…
State the meaning of praise by an influencer who is paid by a company.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, company · What happens: state, pay, mean · To what, where: meaning, influencer, praise
This is exam question 4 of lesson 334 «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» of the everyday 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meaning | det |
| 3 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 praise | case |
| 5 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meaning | nmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 influencer | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 influencer | det |
| 8 | influencer | influencer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 paid | aux:pass |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 influencer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 company | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 company | det |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the meaning of praise | by a influencer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic | |||
| 2 | pay | present · passive | a company | a influencer | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | ||||
| 3 | mean | praise | nom meaning «communication 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
It is an independent scientific review
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 review | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 review | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 review | det |
| 4 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 review | amod |
| 5 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 review | amod |
| 6 | review | review | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a independent scientific review | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is an advert, not a test of the product
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 advert | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 advert | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 advert | det |
| 4 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 test | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 test | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 test | det |
| 8 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advert | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 product | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 product | det |
| 11 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 test | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a advert | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | test | the product | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
It is an official government approval
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 approval | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 approval | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 approval | det |
| 4 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 approval | amod |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 approval | compound |
| 6 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a official government approval | tree rules |
Option 4
It is a guarantee of quality
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guarantee | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 guarantee | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 guarantee | det |
| 4 | guarantee | guarantee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 quality | case |
| 6 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guarantee | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a guarantee | of quality | tree rules |
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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