Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…
An auditor (someone who checks a firm's money records) finds "creative accounting" in the books. What has she found?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: auditor, firm · What happens: check, find, record · To what, where: money records, creative accounting, books
This is test 12 · ★ 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: An auditor (someone who checks a firm's money records) finds "creative accounting" in the books.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 auditor | det |
| 2 | auditor | auditor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | punct |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 auditor | appos |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 checks | nsubj |
| 6 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 firm | det |
| 8 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 records | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 firm | case |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 records | compound |
| 11 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 checks | obj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | punct |
| 13 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 accounting | punct |
| 15 | creative | creative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 accounting | amod |
| 16 | accounting | accounting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finds | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 accounting | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 books | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 books | det |
| 20 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 finds | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | a firm's money records | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | present | a auditor | creative accounting | the books | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accounting=Topic | |||
| 3 | record | a firm | nom record «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: What has she found?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 found | obj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · perfect | auditor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Pretty drawings in the margins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drawings | amod |
| 2 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 margins | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 margins | det |
| 5 | margins | margin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drawings | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Misleading or dishonest figures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misleading | misleading | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 figures | amod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 dishonest | cc |
| 3 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Misleading | conj |
| 4 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A new art budget
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 budget | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 budget | amod |
| 3 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 budget | compound |
| 4 | budget | budget | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Very accurate figures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 accurate | advmod |
| 2 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 figures | amod |
| 3 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
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