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Test 4 · ★ · The news: who makes it and how

A Liverpool lad says, "That paper printed a correction, so they're dead dodgy, la." ("Dead dodgy" means really untrustworthy.) What's the fairer view?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liverpool lad, paper, they, Dead dodgy, fairer view · What happens: say, print, be, mean · To what, where: correction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 10 «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics 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 Liverpool lad says, "That paper printed a correction, so they're dead dodgy, la." ("Dead dodgy" means really untrustworthy.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lad	compound
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 printed	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 printed	punct
7	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 paper	det
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 printed	nsubj
9	printed	print	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 correction	det
11	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 printed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dodgy	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 dodgy	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dodgy	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dodgy	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dodgy	amod
17	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 la.	punct
19	la.	La.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 dodgy	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dodgy	punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 dodgy	punct
23	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dodgy	amod
24	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 means	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 dodgy	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
27	really	really	ADV	_	28 untrustworthy	advmod
28	untrustworthy	untrustworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 means	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Liverpool lad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	print in a quote	past	that paper	a correction					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correction=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	they					la. obl; dodgy property	tree rules
4	mean	present	Dead dodgy					untrustworthy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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's the fairer view?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fairer view						tree rules

The options

Option 1

He's right, any single mistake means you should never trust them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 mistake	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mistake	amod
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 trust	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 trust	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 trust	advmod
12	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	mean	present	any single mistake						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	not trust	should	you	them = they					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Printing corrections shows they care about accuracy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corrections	compound
2	corrections	correction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
5	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 accuracy	case
7	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Printing corrections						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	care	present	corrections = correction					about accuracy	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about accuracy=Stimulus

Option 3

Corrections mean the paper made the whole story up from nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Corrections	correction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 paper	det
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mean	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	up	up	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 nothing	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Corrections						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	the paper	the whole story		nothing			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset story=Product from nothing=Material

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Papers that print corrections should be closed down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 closed	nsubj:pass
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 print	nsubj
3	print	print	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Papers	acl:relcl
4	corrections	correction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 print	obj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 closed	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 closed	aux:pass
7	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 closed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	present	Papers	corrections					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correction=Theme
2	close down	should · passive		Papers					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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