Test 1 · Propaganda and fake news

"bro this Your Country Needs YOU poster is just an advert innit" — what was it really?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Country, poster · What happens: need, be · To what, where: YOU, advert innit, poster

This is test 1 of lesson 31 «Propaganda and fake news» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bro	punct
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Needs	vocative
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Country	det
4	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Country	nmod:poss
5	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Needs	nsubj
6	Needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	YOU	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Needs	obj
8	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 innit	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 innit	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 innit	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 innit	det
12	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 innit	compound
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Needs	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Needs	parataxis
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 it	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 what	nsubj
19	really	really	ADV	_	16 what	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	Your Country	YOU	bro vocative	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	poster	a advert innit		tree rules
3	is a	past		poster		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

A satire poster from a joke website

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 poster	det
2	satire	satire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poster	compound
3	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 website	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 website	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 website	compound
7	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poster	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A correction printed by a newspaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 correction	det
2	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 correction	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 newspaper	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 newspaper	det
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 printed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	participle		a correction not said here				by a newspaper	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Propaganda to get men to join the army in the First World War

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 get	mark
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 join	mark
6	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 army	det
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 join	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 War	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 War	det
11	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 War	amod
12	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 War	compound
13	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 join	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive	Propaganda	men					tree rules
2	join	to-infinitive	men not said here	the army		the First World War			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient

Option 4

An advert for a new brand of breakfast cereal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 advert	det
2	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 brand	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 brand	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brand	amod
6	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 advert	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cereal	case
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cereal	compound
9	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brand	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brand			breakfast cereal					nom brand «communication transitive»: of=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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