Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…
"Lol it's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature" — what is the speaker really saying?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, bug · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: bug, undocumented feature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | _ | 7 bug | punct |
| 2 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 bug | discourse |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bug | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bug | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bug | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bug | det |
| 7 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feature | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feature | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 feature | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feature | det |
| 12 | undocumented | undocumented | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feature | amod |
| 13 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bug | appos |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 feature | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 saying | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 saying | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 speaker | det |
| 19 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | nsubj |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 saying | advmod |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | it | a bug | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | bug | a undocumented feature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | present | a bug | say 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.
The options
Option 1
It is a secret extra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 extra | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 extra | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 extra | det |
| 4 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 extra | amod |
| 5 | extra | extra | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a secret extra | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is a bug, said as a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bug | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bug | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bug | det |
| 4 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bug | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 joke | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 joke | det |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a bug | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | as a joke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It is a manual
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 manual | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 manual | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 manual | det |
| 4 | manual | manual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | manual property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It is a planned feature for later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feature | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feature | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feature | det |
| 4 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feature | amod |
| 5 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 later | case |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 feature | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | It | a planned feature | late property | 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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