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Test 4 · ★ · Algorithms, bubbles and false balance

A TV show puts one climate scientist against one doubter and says "the jury's out". What is the better version?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: TV show, better version · What happens: put, say, be · To what, where: one climate scientist, one doubter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A TV show puts one climate scientist against one doubter and says "the jury's out".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 show	det
2	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	compound
3	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puts	nsubj
4	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 scientist	nummod
6	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scientist	compound
7	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puts	obj
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 doubter	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 doubter	nummod
10	doubter	doubter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puts	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 puts	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 out	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jury	det
15	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 out	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 jury	case
17	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	ccomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 out	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	a TV show	one climate scientist		one doubter			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scientist=Theme against doubter=Destination
2	say speech: assert	present	a TV show not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What is the better version?

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 version	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 version	amod
5	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the better version						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Doubters are the larger group of experts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doubters	doubter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 group	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 group	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 group	det
4	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 group	amod
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 experts	case
7	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 group	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Doubters	the larger group				of experts	tree rules

Option 2

Nobody has studied the climate at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 studied	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 studied	aux
3	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 climate	det
5	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 studied	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 studied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	present · perfect	Nobody	the climate		all			vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most climate scientists agree, so equal time can mislead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 scientists	amod
2	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scientists	compound
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 agree	nsubj
4	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mislead	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 mislead	advmod
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mislead	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 mislead	aux
10	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 agree	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Most climate scientists						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mislead	can	equal time						vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is a fair 50-50 split among scientists, so giving each side the same time is fair

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 50-50	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 50-50	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 50-50	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 50-50	amod
5	50-50	50-50	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 50-50	acl
7	among	among	ADP	_	8 scientists	case
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 split	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fair	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	18 fair	advmod
11	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 fair	csubj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 side	det
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 giving	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 giving	obl:unmarked
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fair	cop
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 50-50	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fair 50-50					tree rules
2	split	participle		a fair 50-50 not said here				among scientists	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	give	gerund		each side			time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
4	is	present	giving					fair property	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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