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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…

The app maker writes: "We are sunsetting this app on 1 May." What will happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: app maker, We · What happens: write, sunset, happen · To what, where: app · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: The app maker writes: "We are sunsetting this app on 1 May."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maker	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maker	compound
3	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 writes	nsubj
4	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 sunsetting	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sunsetting	punct
7	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sunsetting	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sunsetting	aux
9	sunsetting	sunset	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 writes	ccomp
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 app	det
11	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunsetting	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 May	case
13	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 May	nummod
14	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sunsetting	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sunsetting	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sunsetting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	the app maker						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sunset in a quote	present · progressive	We	this app			may		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: What will happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The app will only work at sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 app	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sunset	case
7	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	future	the app				sunset		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The app will get a dark mode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 app	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mode	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mode	amod
7	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	the app	a dark mode					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mode=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The app will stop being available

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 app	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 available	cop
6	available	available	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	the app						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	the app not said here					available property	tree rules

Option 4

The app will become free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 app	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	future	the app					free property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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