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title: Whereas a statement can be neither confirmed nor refuted at present,… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whereas a statement can be neither confirmed nor refuted at present, determine the most honest verdict. Exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★

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Whereas a statement can be neither confirmed nor refuted at present, determine the most honest verdict.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** confirm, refute, determine · **To what, where:** statement, present, honest verdict

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:e4:1
# text = Whereas a statement can be neither confirmed nor refuted at present, determine the most honest verdict.
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	refuted	refute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | can · passive |  | a statement |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **refute** | participle |  |  |  | present |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the honest verdict |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verdict=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Not sure yet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:e4:o1:1
# text = Not sure yet
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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False

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:e4:o2:1
# text = False
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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True

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:e4:o3:1
# text = True
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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True, provided many have shared it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:e4:o4:1
# text = True, provided many have shared it
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme |
| 2 | **share** | present · perfect · passive |  | many |  |  |  |  | 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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