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Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★

A poster shows dark clouds and says "THEY are coming to ruin everything. Vote for us!" Which tricks does it use?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poster, clouds, you · What happens: show, say, come, ruin, vote, trick · To what, where: dark clouds, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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 poster shows dark clouds and says "THEY are coming to ruin everything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poster	det
2	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clouds	amod
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 says	cc
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
9	THEY	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 coming	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 coming	aux
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 says	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ruin	mark
13	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 coming	advcl
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 ruin	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a poster	dark clouds					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cloud=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	a poster not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present · progressive	clouds = cloud						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ruin in a quote	to-infinitive	clouds = cloud not said here	everything					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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: Vote for us!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 us	case
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Vote	obl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Vote	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Vote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	imperative	you not said here					for us goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for we=Goal

Sentence 3: Which tricks does it use?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 tricks	nsubj
2	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tricks	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tricks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present							tree rules
2	use	present · do-support	poster						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Satire, so it is just a harmless joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Satire	satire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 joke	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 joke	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 joke	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 joke	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 joke	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 joke	amod
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Satire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a harmless joke					tree rules

Option 2

A careful poll with a margin of error

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 poll	det
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poll	amod
3	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 margin	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 margin	det
6	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poll	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 error	case
8	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 margin	nmod

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

Option 3

Plain facts with dates and links to check, so you can see it is fair

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 facts	amod
2	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 dates	case
4	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 facts	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 links	cc
6	links	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dates	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 check	mark
8	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 links	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 see	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fair	expl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fair	cop
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	Plain facts with dates and links not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	can	Plain facts with dates and links						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	Plain facts with dates and links not said here					fair property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fear, and calling a group the enemy instead of giving reasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reasons	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reasons	cc
4	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 reasons	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 group	det
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calling	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 enemy	det
8	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calling	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 giving	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 calling	advcl
12	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund		a group					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme enemy=Result
2	give	gerund							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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