Test 7 · Propaganda and fake news

What would happen if a country's only TV channel was run by the leader and never showed bad news?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leader, country · What happens: happen, run, not show, channel · To what, where: only TV channel, bad news

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 run	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 channel	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 country	case
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 channel	amod
9	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 channel	compound
10	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux:pass
12	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 leader	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leader	det
15	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 showed	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 showed	advmod
18	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	conj
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 news	amod
20	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showed	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	the leader	a country's only TV channel	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
3	not show	past	the leader not said here	bad news	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Recipient
4	channel		a country		nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

The country would have no leader any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 leader	det
6	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the country	no leader					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The leader would be criticised every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 criticised	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 criticised	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 criticised	aux:pass
5	criticised	criticise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 criticised	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	criticise	would · passive		the leader			night		tree rules

Option 3

People would hear every side of every story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 side	det
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	People	every side of every story					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People could not hear what the leader gets wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 gets	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leader	det
7	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	ccomp
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	could	People						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get	present	the leader					wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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