Test 1 · ★ · Algorithms, bubbles and false balance

"it's giving everyone agrees with me, my whole feed says so" — what is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, giving, whole feed · What happens: give, agree, say, be · To what, where: everyone, best reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 34 «Algorithms, bubbles and false balance» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 giving	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	aux
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 agrees	csubj
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 giving	obj
6	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 agrees	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feed	nmod:poss
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feed	amod
12	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 agrees	parataxis
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 "	advmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 reply	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 reply	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reply	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reply	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 reply	amod
21	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agrees	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 agrees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · progressive	it	everyone		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
2	agree speech: agree in a quote	present	giving		with giving	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my whole feed			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	be speech: assert	present		the best reply		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.

The options

Option 1

Feeds show only what is true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeds	feed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 true	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Feeds						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						true property	tree rules

Option 2

Then everyone in the world must agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 everyone	advmod
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 agree	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 everyone	nmod
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 agree	aux
7	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	must	everyone						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Feeds always show every side equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeds	feed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 show	advmod
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 side	det
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obj
6	equally	equally	ADV	_	3 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Feeds	every side				always, equally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent side=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Your feed is picked for you, so it may be a bubble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feed	nmod:poss
2	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	aux:pass
4	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 picked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bubble	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 bubble	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bubble	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bubble	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 bubble	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bubble	det
13	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	present · passive		Your feed				for you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for you=Beneficiary
2	is a	may	feed	a bubble					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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