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title: "bro this Your Country Needs YOU poster is just an advert innit" — w… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics
description: "bro this Your Country Needs YOU poster is just an advert innit" — what was it really? Test 1 of lesson 31 «Propaganda and fake news» 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 1 · Propaganda and fake news

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"bro this Your Country Needs YOU poster is just an advert innit" — what was it really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Country, poster · **What happens:** need, be · **To what, where:** YOU, advert innit, poster

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This is test 1 of lesson 31 «Propaganda and fake news» 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/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t1:1
# text = "bro this Your Country Needs YOU poster is just an advert innit" — what was it really?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	poster	poster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	parataxis	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
19	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** *in a quote* | present | Your Country | YOU |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | poster | a advert innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | poster |  |  |  |  | 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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A satire poster from a joke website

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t1:o1:1
# text = A satire poster from a joke website
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	satire	satire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	poster	poster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A correction printed by a newspaper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t1:o2:1
# text = A correction printed by a newspaper
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  | a correction *not said here* |  |  |  | by a newspaper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Propaganda to get men to join the army in the First World War

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t1:o3:1
# text = Propaganda to get men to join the army in the First World War
1	Propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
12	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive | Propaganda | men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | the army |  | the First World War |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An advert for a new brand of breakfast cereal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t1:o4:1
# text = An advert for a new brand of breakfast cereal
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brand** |  |  | breakfast cereal |  |  |  |  | nom brand «communication transitive»: of=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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