Exam question 3 · "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section

Determine the most appropriate course of action upon encountering a report of the death of a famous person on social media.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, action, famous person · What happens: determine, encounter, report, die · To what, where: appropriate course, report, death

This is exam question 3 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 course	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 course	amod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 action	case
7	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 course	nmod
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 encountering	mark
9	encountering	encounter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 action	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 report	det
11	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 encountering	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 death	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 death	det
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 report	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 person	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
17	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 person	amod
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 death	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 media	case
20	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 media	amod
21	media	media	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 person	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate course of action	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic
2	encounter	gerund	action not said here	a report of the death of a famous person on social media	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer report=Stimulus
3	report			the death of a famous person on social media	nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	die		a famous person on social media		nom death «event intransitive»: of=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

Reliance upon the comment section

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reliance	reliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 section	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 section	det
4	comment	comment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 section	compound
5	section	section	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reliance	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Verification by means of a trusted news website before sharing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Verification	verification	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	1 Verification	fixed
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 website	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 website	det
6	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 website	amod
7	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 website	compound
8	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 sharing	mark
10	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 means	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Verification	of a trusted news website	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	trust	participle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	share	gerund	Verification not said here		tree rules

Option 3

Immediate distribution to all acquaintances before others share it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 distribution	amod
2	distribution	distribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 acquaintances	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 acquaintances	det
5	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 distribution	nmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 share	mark
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 share	nsubj
8	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 acquaintances	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	others	distribution					tree rules

Option 4

Acceptance if the post has received many likes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 received	nsubj:pass
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 received	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 post	det
4	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 received	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 received	aux
6	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 likes	amod
8	likes	like	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 received	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present · perfect · passive		Acceptance					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme like=Location

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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