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Test 10 · Propaganda and fake news

In Liverpool: "Our kid says one site calls them brave citizens and the other an angry mob, so one of them made the whole protest up." What is more likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, one site, other, one · What happens: say, call, mob, make, protest up, be · To what, where: Liverpool, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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

Sentence 1: In Liverpool: "Our kid says one site calls them brave citizens and the other an angry mob, so one of them made the whole protest up."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Liverpool	case
2	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
5	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kid	nmod:poss
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 site	nummod
9	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calls	nsubj
10	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 calls	obj
12	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 citizens	amod
13	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 calls	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mob	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mob	nsubj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mob	det
18	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mob	amod
19	mob	mob	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 citizens	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 made	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 made	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 one	nmod
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 protest	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 whole	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 made	xcomp
28	protest	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 protest	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Our kid			Liverpool			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call in a quote	present	one site	them = they					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme citizen=Result
3	mob in a quote		the other						tree rules
4	make in a quote	past	one of citizens					whole property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	protest up speech: disagree in a quote	present							vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: 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 is more likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One site invented a protest that never happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 site	nummod
2	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	nsubj
3	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 protest	det
5	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 happened	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 happened	advmod
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 protest	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	One site	a protest					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protest=Result
2	not happen	past	a protest						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both describe the same protest in different loaded words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 describe	nsubj
2	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 protest	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 protest	amod
5	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 describe	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 words	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
8	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 describe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	Both	the same protest		different loaded words			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent protest=Theme
2	load	participle							vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Both sites are writing about two different cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sites	det
2	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 writing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 writing	aux
4	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 two	advmod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cities	nummod
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cities	amod
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 writing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · progressive	both sites	two different cities					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme

Option 4

Neither site saw the protest, so it never happened at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 site	det
2	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 protest	det
5	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happened	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 happened	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 happened	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 happened	advmod
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	neither site	the protest					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer protest=Stimulus
2	not happen	past	it			all			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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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