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title: 500 accounts saying the same thing so it must be true — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca… · tree and pragmatics
description: 500 accounts saying the same thing so it must be true Test 13 · ★★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 13 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

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500 accounts saying the same thing so it must be true

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 500 accounts, thing · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** same thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday 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/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t13:1
# text = 500 accounts saying the same thing so it must be true
1	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | 500 accounts *not said here* | the same thing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | must | thing |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Only if they use capitals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t13:o1:1
# text = Only if they use capitals
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | they | capitals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, that many people can't all be wrong at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, that many people can't all be wrong at once
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | can | many people |  |  |  |  | all, wrong *property* | tree rules |

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

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Not always, bots repeat things to look popular

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t13:o3:1
# text = Not always, bots repeat things to look popular
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	repeat	repeat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | present | bots | things |  |  |  | always *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | bots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, if they all have photos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t13:o4:1
# text = Yes, if they all have photos
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | they | photos |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=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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