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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…

Jake says: "Alternative facts are facts from a different book, so they're true too." Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, Alternative facts, facts · What happens: say, be · To what, where: facts, different book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Jake says: "Alternative facts are facts from a different book, so they're true too."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 facts	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 facts	punct
5	Alternative	alternative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 facts	amod
6	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 facts	cop
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 book	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 book	det
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 book	amod
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 facts	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 true	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 true	nsubj
16	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 true	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jake						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Alternative facts	facts		a different book			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	facts = fact					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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jake					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, they are just as true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 true	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 true	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 true	advmod
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					true property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, the phrase is used for falsehoods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phrase	det
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux:pass
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 falsehoods	case
8	falsehoods	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		the phrase				for falsehoods	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for falsehood=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they are newer facts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 facts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 facts	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 facts	cop
5	newer	new	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 facts	amod
6	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	newer facts					tree rules

Option 4

No, they are facts about other planets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 facts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 facts	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 facts	cop
5	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 planets	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 planets	amod
8	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 facts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	facts				about other planets	tree rules

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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