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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…

News: "The minister said yesterday's figures were wrong and that he had misspoken." What does this admit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: minister, figures, yesterday, this · What happens: say, be, misspeak, figure, admit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: News: "The minister said yesterday's figures were wrong and that he had misspoken."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 minister	det
5	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 News	parataxis
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 figures	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 yesterday	case
9	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wrong	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wrong	cop
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 misspoken	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 misspoken	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 misspoken	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 misspoken	aux
16	misspoken	misspeak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 wrong	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wrong	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the minister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	yesterday's figures					wrong property	tree rules
3	misspeak in a quote	past · perfect	minister						tree rules
4	figure in a quote		yesterday						nom figure «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 does this admit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 admit	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 admit	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 admit	nsubj
4	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 admit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	present · do-support	this						vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That he was misheard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 misheard	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 misheard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 misheard	aux:pass
4	misheard	mishear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mishear	past · passive		That					tree rules

Option 2

That his microphone broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 microphone	det
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 microphone	nmod:poss
3	microphone	microphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	his microphone						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That what he said was false

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 what	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 false	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 false	cop
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						false property	tree rules

Option 4

That he spoke in French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spoke	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 French	case
5	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	That			French			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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