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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…

Report: "Our sales fell because of headwinds and challenging trading conditions." What does the firm admit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sales, firm · What happens: fall, admit · To what, where: Report

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Report: "Our sales fell because of headwinds and challenging trading conditions."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct
4	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sales	nmod:poss
5	sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Report	acl:relcl
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 headwinds	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	headwinds	headwind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 conditions	cc
11	challenging	challenging	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 conditions	amod
12	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 conditions	compound
13	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 headwinds	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in a quote	past	Our sales	Report not said here				because headwinds and challenging trading conditions	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient report=Result

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 the firm admit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 admit	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 admit	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 firm	det
4	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 admit	nsubj
5	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 admit	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Business went brilliantly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Business					brilliantly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Business went badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Business					badly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Staff traded jobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	traded	trade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 jobs	amod
3	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Staff	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	participle							vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The wind blew down the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow down	past	the wind	the shop					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent shop=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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