Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…
Taxi prices doubled during the storm. What is this called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taxi prices · What happens: double, call · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Taxi prices doubled during the storm.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taxi | taxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prices | compound |
| 2 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 doubled | nsubj |
| 3 | doubled | double | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 storm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storm | det |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubled | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 doubled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | double | past | Taxi prices | during the storm | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 is this called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | this | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A user fee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fee | det |
| 2 | user | user | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fee | compound |
| 3 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A service charge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 charge | det |
| 2 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charge | compound |
| 3 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A price cut
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cut | det |
| 2 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | compound |
| 3 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Dynamic pricing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamic | dynamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pricing | amod |
| 2 | pricing | pricing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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