--- title: Determine the legal term which denotes the publication of false stat… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes an… · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the legal term which denotes the publication of false statements injurious to the reputation of a person. Exam question 1 of lesson 47 «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / [Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies Determine the legal term which denotes the publication of false statements injurious to the reputation of a person. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, legal term · **What happens:** determine, denote, publish, repute · **To what, where:** legal term, publication, false statements, person This is exam question 1 of lesson 47 «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies:e1:1 # text = Determine the legal term which denotes the publication of false statements injurious to the reputation of a person. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 denotes denote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 publication publication NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 statements statement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 injurious injurious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 reputation reputation NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the legal term | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic | | 2 | **denote** | present | the legal term | the publication of false statements | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot publication=Topic | | 3 | **publish** | | | false statements | | | | | nom publication «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **repute** | | | a person | | | | | nom reputation «state transitive»: of=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Correction ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies:e1:o1:1 # text = Correction 1 Correction correction NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Advertisement ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies:e1:o2:1 # text = Advertisement 1 Advertisement advertisement NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Defamation ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies:e1:o3:1 # text = Defamation 1 Defamation defamation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Satire ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies:e1:o4:1 # text = Satire 1 Satire satire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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