Exam question 2 · Older siblings and YouTube gameplay
Identify the principal reason for which a video platform persists in recommending content resembling that which a user has previously selected.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, video platform · What happens: identify, persist, recommend, resemble, select · To what, where: principal reason, recommending content, user
This is exam question 2 of lesson 423 «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reason | amod |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 persists | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 platform | det |
| 8 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 platform | compound |
| 9 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 persists | nsubj |
| 10 | persists | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 content | case |
| 12 | recommending | recommend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 content | amod |
| 13 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 persists | obl |
| 14 | resembling | resemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 persists | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 selected | mark |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 selected | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 user | det |
| 18 | user | user | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 selected | aux |
| 20 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 21 selected | advmod |
| 21 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 resembling | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal reason | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 2 | persist | present | a video platform | recommending content | for the principal reason | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in content=Location | |||
| 3 | recommend | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | resemble | gerund | a video platform not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | select | present · perfect · passive | a user | previously 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 user's device has been compromised by a harmful program
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 user | det |
| 2 | user | user | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 device | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 user | case |
| 4 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compromised | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 compromised | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 compromised | aux:pass |
| 7 | compromised | compromise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 program | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 program | det |
| 10 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 program | amod |
| 11 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compromised | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compromise | present · perfect · passive | a harmful program | the user's device | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The platform recommends further material similar to prior selections
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 platform | det |
| 2 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recommends | nsubj |
| 3 | recommends | recommend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 material | amod |
| 5 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recommends | obj |
| 6 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 material | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 selections | case |
| 8 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 selections | amod |
| 9 | selections | selection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 similar | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present | the platform | further material | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Theme |
Option 3
The content is recommended equally to every user
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 content | det |
| 2 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recommended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recommended | aux:pass |
| 4 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 4 recommended | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 user | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 user | det |
| 8 | user | user | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recommended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present · passive | the content | every user | equally property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to user=Recipient |
Option 4
The platform is obliged by law to repeat each video
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 platform | det |
| 2 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 law | case |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obliged | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 repeat | mark |
| 8 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | advcl |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 video | det |
| 10 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · passive | law | the platform | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | repeat | to-infinitive | law not said here | each video | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/e2/