--- title: Gran shared a fake flood story by accident, thinking it was true. Wh… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: Gran shared a fake flood story by accident, thinking it was true. Which word fits best? Test 5 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/) / [Propaganda and fake news](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/) / t5 # Test 5 · Propaganda and fake news Gran shared a fake flood story by accident, thinking it was true. Which word fits best? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gran, story, word · **What happens:** share, think, be, fit · **To what, where:** fake flood story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Gran shared a fake flood story by accident, thinking it was true. ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t5:1 # text = Gran shared a fake flood story by accident, thinking it was true. 1 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | past | Gran | a fake flood story | | | | by accident | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Gran *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | story | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which word fits best? ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t5:2 # text = Which word fits best? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fit** | present | which word | | | | | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Propaganda ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t5:o1:1 # text = Propaganda 1 Propaganda propaganda NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Disinformation ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t5:o2:1 # text = Disinformation 1 Disinformation disinformation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Misinformation ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t5:o3:1 # text = Misinformation 1 Misinformation misinformation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Satire ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t5:o4:1 # text = Satire 1 Satire satire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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