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Test 8 · ★ · Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections

In a cartoon, a villain uses a machine to copy the hero's voice and tells the town to stay home. Which real thing is like that?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: villain, town · What happens: use, copy, tell, stay, be · To what, where: machine, cartoon, voice, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» 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 a cartoon, a villain uses a machine to copy the hero's voice and tells the town to stay home.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 villain	det
6	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	nsubj
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 machine	det
9	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 copy	mark
11	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 uses	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hero	det
13	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 voice	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 hero	case
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copy	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tells	cc
17	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 uses	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tells	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stay	mark
21	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tells	xcomp
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 stay	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	a villain	a machine		a cartoon			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient
2	copy	to-infinitive	a villain not said here	the hero's voice					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	a villain not said here	the town					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent town=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the town not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 real thing is like that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 thing	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 that	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thing	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct

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

The options

Option 1

A class voting by secret ballot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voting	det
2	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voting	compound
3	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 ballot	case
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ballot	amod
6	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voting	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote		secret ballot						nom voting «act intransitive»: by=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A voice-clone robocall telling people not to vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 robocall	det
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clone	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 voice	punct
4	clone	clone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 robocall	compound
5	robocall	robocall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 robocall	acl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 telling	iobj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 vote	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 vote	mark
10	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 telling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	a clone robocall not said here		people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not vote not said to happen	to-infinitive	a clone robocall not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A fact-checker rating a claim as true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 checker	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checker	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	checker	checker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	rating	rate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 checker	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 claim	det
7	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rating	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 true	case
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rate	gerund	a fact checker not said here	a claim				as true	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme

Option 4

A newspaper printing a correction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 newspaper	det
2	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	printing	print	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 newspaper	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 correction	det
5	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 printing	obj

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

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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