Test 10 · ★★ · Viral facts and chain messages

"this vid shows a phone charging off an onion, 2 mil views" What does 2 million views prove?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vid, phone, 2 mil views · What happens: show, charge off, prove · To what, where: phone, onion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 vid	det
3	vid	vid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 phone	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obj
7	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 phone	acl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 charging	compound:prt
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 onion	det
10	onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charging	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prove	punct
12	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 views	nummod
13	mil	mil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 views	compound
14	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 prove	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 prove	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 prove	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 prove	aux
18	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 million	compound
19	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 views	nummod
20	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 prove	nsubj
21	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shows	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show in a quote	present	this vid	a phone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	charge off in a quote	gerund	a phone not said here	a onion	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location onion=Theme
3	prove	present · do-support	2 mil views		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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

That the video must be from a scientist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 video	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 video	det
3	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scientist	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 scientist	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 scientist	cop
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 scientist	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 scientist	det
8	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	that video			a scientist			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing; popular videos can be staged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 staged	nsubj:pass
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 videos	punct
3	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 videos	amod
4	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 staged	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 staged	aux:pass
7	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stage	can · passive		Nothing					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That onions really charge phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 onions	det
2	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 charge	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 charge	advmod
4	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 charge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	that onions	phones					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location phone=Theme

Option 4

That only big onions work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 onions	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 onions	amod
4	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 That	nmod
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	That						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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