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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…

The boss says: "Losing that million was a learning experience." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boss, Losing · What happens: say, be, happen · To what, where: learning experience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 boss says: "Losing that million was a learning experience."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boss	det
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Losing	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Losing	punct
6	Losing	losing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 experience	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 million	nsubj
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Losing	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 experience	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 experience	det
11	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 experience	compound
12	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 experience	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 experience	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the boss						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Losing million	a learning experience					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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The staff went on a course

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 staff	det
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 course	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 course	det
6	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the staff			a course			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on course=Location

Option 2

The firm opened a school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 firm	det
2	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 school	det
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the firm	a school					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location school=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The firm lost a lot of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 firm	det
2	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the firm	a lot of money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality

Option 4

The firm won a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 firm	det
2	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prize	det
5	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the firm	a prize					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality

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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