Test 13 · ★★ · Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keep…

my mate says a headline said "school holidays cancelled forever" so it's true. what's likely

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, headline · What happens: say, cancel, be · To what, where: school holidays · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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. 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 headline	det
5	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 holidays	punct
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holidays	compound
9	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obj
10	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 holidays	acl
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	10 cancelled	advmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 holidays	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 true	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 true	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 likely	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 likely	cop
20	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	a headline	school holidays		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent holiday=Topic
3	cancel in a quote	participle		school holidays not said here	forever property	tree rules
4	is	present	headline		true property	tree rules
5	is	present			likely 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Headlines mislead; read beyond them and check other trusted sources

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mislead	nsubj
2	mislead	mislead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 mislead	parataxis
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 check	cc
8	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 read	conj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sources	amod
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sources	amod
11	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mislead	present	Headlines			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	read	infinitive			beyond Headlines = headline	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	check	infinitive		other trusted sources		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme
4	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

If it's online in big letters it's real, they can't just make that up

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 online	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 online	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 online	cop
4	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 letters	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 letters	amod
7	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 online	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 real	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 letters	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 online	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 make	advmod
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 make	advmod
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 make	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 make	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it		big letters	online property	tree rules
2	is	present	it	big letters not said here		real property	tree rules
3	not make up	can	letters = letter	that			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Pivot

Option 3

Headlines are always true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 true	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Headlines					always, true property	tree rules

Option 4

Holidays are being cancelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cancelled	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cancelled	aux:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cancelled	aux:pass
4	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	present · passive		Holidays					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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