Exam question 1 · "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section

Identify the principal error in concluding that a claim is true because it appears in a widely viewed video.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, claim, it · What happens: identify, conclude, be, appear, view · To what, where: principal error, viewed video

This is exam question 1 of lesson 175 «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 error	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 error	amod
4	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 concluding	mark
6	concluding	conclude	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 true	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 claim	det
9	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 true	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 concluding	ccomp
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 appears	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 appears	nsubj
14	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 video	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 video	det
17	widely	widely	ADV	_	18 viewed	advmod
18	viewed	view	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 video	amod
19	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appears	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal error			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent error=Theme
2	conclude	gerund	you not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present	a claim			true property	tree rules
4	appear	present	it		a viewed video		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in video=Location
5	view	participle				widely property	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The claim was made by a stranger with a profile picture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 claim	det
2	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 stranger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 picture	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 picture	det
10	profile	profile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picture	compound
11	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stranger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	a stranger with a profile picture	the claim					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 2

The video was insufficiently short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 video	det
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 short	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 short	cop
4	insufficiently	insufficiently	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the video					insufficiently, short property	tree rules

Option 3

The video lacked music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 video	det
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lacked	nsubj
3	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	past	the video	music					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Views measure attention rather than truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 measure	nsubj
2	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measure	obj
4	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 truth	cc
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 rather	fixed
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measure	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	present	Views	attention					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme attention=Value

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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