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title: Which source is best to check a giant squid photo? — How would we know? Asking experts and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which source is best to check a giant squid photo? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths 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 11 · ★★ · How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks

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Which source is best to check a giant squid photo?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** source · **What happens:** be, check · **To what, where:** giant squid photo

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths 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/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks:t11:1
# text = Which source is best to check a giant squid photo?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which source |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive |  | a giant squid photo |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |

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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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A meme page with lots of followers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks:t11:o1:1
# text = A meme page with lots of followers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	meme	meme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A comment under the post

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks:t11:o2:1
# text = A comment under the post
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A friend who saw it shared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks:t11:o3:1
# text = A friend who saw it shared
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | a friend | friend |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **share** | participle | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A real news outlet or a museum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks:t11:o4:1
# text = A real news outlet or a museum
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	outlet	outlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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