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title: Your sister says «Fake news means any news Dad doesn't like.» Put he… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics
description: Your sister says «Fake news means any news Dad doesn't like.» Put her right. Test 1 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others

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Your sister says «Fake news means any news Dad doesn't like.» Put her right.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sister, Fake news, news Dad, you · **What happens:** say, mean, not like, put · **To what, where:** news · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your sister says «Fake news means any news Dad doesn't like.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t1:1
# text = Your sister says «Fake news means any news Dad doesn't like.»
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Fake news |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | any news Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Put her right.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t1:2
# text = Put her right.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | news |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It means news read out by a robot voice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t1:o1:1
# text = It means news read out by a robot voice
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It | news |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic |
| 2 | **read out** | participle |  | news *not said here* |  |  |  | by a robot voice | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It means news that is more than a week old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t1:o2:1
# text = It means news that is more than a week old
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	nmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It | news |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It means made-up stories spread on purpose, though some use it that way

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t1:o3:1
# text = It means made-up stories spread on purpose, though some use it that way
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | present | made stories |  |  | purpose |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location |
| 4 | **use** | present | some | purpose |  |  |  | that way *obl:unmarked* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, that is exactly and only what it means, so you can ignore it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, that is exactly and only what it means, so you can ignore it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ignore** | can | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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