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title: What would happen if a fact check found a claim "misleading"? — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a fact check found a claim "misleading"? Test 6 of lesson 11 «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics 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 6 · Debates and rows on chat shows

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What would happen if a fact check found a claim "misleading"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fact check · **What happens:** happen, find · **To what, where:** claim

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This is test 6 of lesson 11 «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics 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/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a fact check found a claim "misleading"?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	misleading	misleading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a fact check | a claim |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Topic |

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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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The candidate would lose the election at once, because misleading claims are against the law

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:t6:o1:1
# text = The candidate would lose the election at once, because misleading claims are against the law
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	misleading	misleading	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | the candidate | the election |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | misleading claims |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The claim would be removed from TV forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:t6:o2:1
# text = The claim would be removed from TV forever
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | would · passive |  | the claim |  | TV |  | forever *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from tv=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The moderator would switch off the cameras

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:t6:o3:1
# text = The moderator would switch off the cameras
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moderator	moderator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | would | the moderator | the cameras |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |

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

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It would say the claim leaves people with a wrong picture, even if part is true

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:t6:o4:1
# text = It would say the claim leaves people with a wrong picture, even if part is true
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | present | the claim |  | people |  |  | with a wrong picture | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Recipient with picture=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | part |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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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