Exam question 2 · Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections

Identify the phenomenon whereby the existence of fabricated media is invoked in order to deny authentic recordings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fabricated media · What happens: identify, invoke, deny, exist · To what, where: phenomenon, existence, order, authentic recordings

This is exam question 2 of lesson 32 «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phenomenon	det
3	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	11 invoked	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 existence	det
6	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invoked	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 media	case
8	fabricated	fabricated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 media	amod
9	media	media	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 existence	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 invoked	aux:pass
11	invoked	invoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 order	case
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invoked	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 deny	mark
15	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 invoked	advcl
16	authentic	authentic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 recordings	amod
17	recordings	recording	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deny	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the phenomenon			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent phenomenon=Theme
2	invoke	present · passive		the existence of fabricated media	order	whereby property	tree rules
3	deny	to-infinitive		authentic recordings			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent recording=Eventuality
4	exist		fabricated media				nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

Astroturfing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Astroturfing	Astroturfing	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

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.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The liar's dividend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liar	det
2	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dividend	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 liar	case
4	dividend	dividend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A correction

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

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.

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