Test 9 · ★★ · Viral facts and chain messages
A scary "challenge" warning says share to warn parents. What could sharing do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: scary challenge warning, parents · What happens: say, share, warn, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A scary "challenge" warning says share to warn parents.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 warning | det |
| 2 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warning | amod |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 challenge | punct |
| 4 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warning | compound |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 challenge | punct |
| 6 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 warn | mark |
| 10 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 share | advcl |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 warn | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a scary challenge warning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | share | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | parents | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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.
Sentence 2: What could sharing do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 sharing | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sharing | aux |
| 3 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sharing | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | could | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Stop the challenge at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 challenge | det |
| 3 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stop | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Stop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | the challenge | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality challenge=Eventuality |
Option 2
Make the challenge illegal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 illegal | det |
| 3 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 illegal | compound |
| 4 | illegal | illegal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the challenge illegal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset illegal=Product |
Option 3
Nothing, sharing has no effects ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharing | punct |
| 3 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 effects | det |
| 6 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 has | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | gerund | Nothing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Nothing | no effects | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Spread fear about something that may be a hoax
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spread | obj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 something | case |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Spread | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hoax | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoax | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hoax | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hoax | det |
| 9 | hoax | hoax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | imperative | you not said here | fear | about something | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fear=Theme about something=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | may | a hoax | tree rules |
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