Test 5 · Propaganda and fake news
Gran shared a fake flood story by accident, thinking it was true. Which word fits best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran, story, word · What happens: share, think, be, fit · To what, where: fake flood story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: Gran shared a fake flood story by accident, thinking it was true.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shared | nsubj |
| 2 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 4 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 5 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | compound |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shared | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 accident | case |
| 8 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinking | punct |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 shared | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 true | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 true | cop |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thinking | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | Gran | a fake flood story | by accident | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Gran not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | story | true property | 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.
Sentence 2: Which word fits best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 fits | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which word | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Propaganda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Propaganda | propaganda | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Disinformation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disinformation | disinformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Misinformation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misinformation | misinformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Satire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satire | satire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/t5/