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description: State the purpose of accounts known as bots that repeat the same message. Exam question 4 of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 4 · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

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State the purpose of accounts known as bots that repeat the same message.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bots, accounts · **What happens:** know, repeat, purpose · **To what, where:** accounts, same message

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday 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/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:e4:1
# text = State the purpose of accounts known as bots that repeat the same message.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	repeat	repeat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | accounts *not said here* |  |  |  | as bots | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bot=Attribute |
| 2 | **repeat** | present | bots | the same message |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Eventuality |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | accounts |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To make an idea appear more popular than it is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:e4:o1:1
# text = To make an idea appear more popular than it is
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a idea |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset idea=Product |
| 2 | **appear** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than idea; popular *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To deliver messages much faster than humans can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:e4:o2:1
# text = To deliver messages much faster than humans can
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | to-infinitive |  | messages |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To protect users from scams and from harmful links

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:e4:o3:1
# text = To protect users from scams and from harmful links
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	protect	protect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	users	user	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | users |  |  |  | from scams and harmful links | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent user=Beneficiary from scam=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To correct errors in the news faster than people could

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:e4:o4:1
# text = To correct errors in the news faster than people could
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	correct	correct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	errors	error	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive |  | errors |  | the news |  | fast *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent error=Patient |

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**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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