Exam question 2 · The YouTuber who is right about everything

Determine the term properly applied to the circumstance in which a reviewer is remunerated by a competitor of the product reviewed.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, competitor · What happens: determine, apply, remunerate, review · To what, where: term, reviewer, circumstance, product

This is exam question 2 of lesson 174 «The YouTuber who is right about everything» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 applied	advmod
5	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 term	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 circumstance	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 circumstance	det
8	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 applied	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 remunerated	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 reviewer	det
12	reviewer	reviewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remunerated	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 remunerated	aux:pass
14	remunerated	remunerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 circumstance	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 competitor	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 competitor	det
17	competitor	competitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remunerated	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 product	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 product	det
20	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 competitor	nmod
21	reviewed	review	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 product	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the term			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic
2	apply	participle		the term not said here		to the circumstance; properly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	remunerate	present · passive	a competitor of the product	a reviewer	the circumstance		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
4	review	participle		the product not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1

Circular reasoning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reasoning	amod
2	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The halo effect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
2	halo	halo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 effect	compound
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

A conflict of interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 conflict	det
2	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 interest	case
4	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conflict	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conflict		interest						nom conflict «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Survivorship bias

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Survivorship	survivorship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bias	compound
2	bias	bias	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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