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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…

A cereal box says "New look, same great taste!" and it costs the same. What should a shopper check?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cereal box, box · What happens: say, cost · To what, where: same · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: A cereal box says "New look, same great taste!" and it costs the same.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
6	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	amod
7	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taste	punct
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 taste	amod
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 taste	amod
11	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 taste	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 costs	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 costs	nsubj
16	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 same	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 costs	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cereal box						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cost	present	box	the same					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value

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 should a shopper check?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 check	det
4	shopper	shopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 check	compound
5	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whether the taste changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 changed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 taste	det
3	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	nsubj
4	changed	change	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	change	past	the taste						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Whether there is a toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 is	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toy	det
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a toy			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Whether the colour is nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 nice	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nice	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Whether the box has less in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the box	less		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient

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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