Test 11 · Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines
"You won't BELIEVE what she said!!" What is the best guess before you click?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, she, best guess · What happens: not believe, say, be, click · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 33 «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» 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: "You won't BELIEVE what she said!!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 BELIEVE | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 BELIEVE | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 BELIEVE | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 BELIEVE | advmod |
| 5 | BELIEVE | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 BELIEVE | ccomp |
| 9 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 5 BELIEVE | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 BELIEVE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | future | You | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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 the best guess before you click?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guess | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 guess | amod |
| 5 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 click | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 click | nsubj |
| 8 | click | click | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best guess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | click | present | you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The story may be smaller than the headline promises
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smaller | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 smaller | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 smaller | cop |
| 5 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 promises | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 promises | det |
| 8 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promises | compound |
| 9 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smaller | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | the story | than the headline promises; small property | tree rules |
Option 2
Headlines with capitals are always true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Headlines | headline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 true | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 capitals | case |
| 3 | capitals | capital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Headlines | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 true | advmod |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Headlines with capitals | always, true property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The headline was written by the politician
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 headline | det |
| 2 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 politician | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 politician | det |
| 7 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | the politician | the headline | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 4
The story must be the biggest news of the year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 news | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 news | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 news | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 news | amod |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 news | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | the story | the biggest news | year | tree rules |
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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