Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…
"ugh, the concert ticket was 40 but they added a convenience fee of 6" — how much did they pay in all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: concert ticket, they · What happens: be, add, pay · To what, where: 40, convenience fee, much, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 2 | ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 8 40 | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ugh | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ticket | det |
| 5 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ticket | compound |
| 6 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 40 | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 40 | cop |
| 8 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 added | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 added | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fee | det |
| 13 | convenience | convenience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fee | compound |
| 14 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 6 | case |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 fee | nmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 pay | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pay | obj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pay | aux |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pay | nsubj |
| 23 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 added | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 pay | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the concert ticket | 40 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | they | a convenience fee of 6 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | past · do-support | they | much | all | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset |
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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
34
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | 34 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
46
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 | 46 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t1/