Exam question 1 · Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keep…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the method by which fraudulent websites deceive their visitors?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fraudulent websites · What happens: follow, characteris, deceive · To what, where: method, visitors

This is exam question 1 of lesson 335 «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 method	det
10	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 deceive	obl
13	fraudulent	fraudulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 websites	amod
14	websites	website	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deceive	nsubj
15	deceive	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 method	acl:relcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 visitors	nmod:poss
17	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deceive	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the method	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	deceive	present	fraudulent websites	websites's visitors	by the method	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=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

They are always slow to load

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 load	mark
6	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					always, slow property	tree rules
2	load	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They always display obvious warnings at the top of every page

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 display	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 display	advmod
3	display	display	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warnings	amod
5	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 display	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 display	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 page	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 page	det
11	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	display	present	They	obvious warnings		the top of every page		always property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme

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

They use addresses differing by a single letter from genuine ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	addresses	address	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 addresses	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 letter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 letter	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 letter	amod
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 differing	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 ones	case
10	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 differing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	They	addresses					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Patient
2	differ	gerund	addresses not said here					by a single letter; from genuine ones	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from one=Co-Theme

Option 4

They use only foreign languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 foreign	advmod
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 languages	amod
5	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	They	foreign languages					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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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