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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★

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A poster shows dark clouds and says "THEY are coming to ruin everything. Vote for us!" Which tricks does it use?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poster, clouds, you · **What happens:** show, say, come, ruin, vote, trick · **To what, where:** dark clouds, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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/42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A poster shows dark clouds and says "THEY are coming to ruin everything.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t7:1
# text = A poster shows dark clouds and says "THEY are coming to ruin everything.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poster	poster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	THEY	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a poster | dark clouds |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cloud=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a poster *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | clouds *= cloud* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ruin** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | clouds *= cloud* *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Vote for us!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t7:2
# text = Vote for us!"
1	Vote	vote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for us *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for we=Goal |

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*Sentence 3:* Which tricks does it use?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t7:3
# text = Which tricks does it use?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tricks	trick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present · do-support | poster |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Satire, so it is just a harmless joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t7:o1:1
# text = Satire, so it is just a harmless joke
1	Satire	satire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a harmless joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A careful poll with a margin of error

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t7:o2:1
# text = A careful poll with a margin of error
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Plain facts with dates and links to check, so you can see it is fair

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t7:o3:1
# text = Plain facts with dates and links to check, so you can see it is fair
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	expl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | Plain facts with dates and links *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | can | Plain facts with dates and links |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | Plain facts with dates and links *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fear, and calling a group the enemy instead of giving reasons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t7:o4:1
# text = Fear, and calling a group the enemy instead of giving reasons
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
4	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund |  | a group |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme enemy=Result |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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