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title: What would happen if everyone believed any video could be fake? — Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in ele… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if everyone believed any video could be fake? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» 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 4 · ★ · Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections

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What would happen if everyone believed any video could be fake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** everyone, video · **What happens:** happen, believe, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» 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/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes:t4:1
# text = What would happen if everyone believed any video could be fake?
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	_	6	mark	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **believe** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | could | any video |  |  |  |  | fake *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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Every video would be checked automatically

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes:t4:o1:1
# text = Every video would be checked automatically
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	video	video	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	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	automatically	automatically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | would · passive |  | every video |  |  |  | automatically *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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All deepfakes would disappear overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes:t4:o2:1
# text = All deepfakes would disappear overnight
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	deepfakes	deepfake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | would | all deepfakes |  |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nobody could ever tell a lie again, because nobody would believe anything they did not see in person

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes:t4:o3:1
# text = Nobody could ever tell a lie again, because nobody would believe anything they did not see in person
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | Nobody | a lie |  |  | ever; again |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient |
| 2 | **believe** | would | nobody | anything |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | they |  |  |  |  | in person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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People caught on real videos could deny what they did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes:t4:o4:1
# text = People caught on real videos could deny what they did
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle |  | People *not said here* |  | real videos |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deny** | could | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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