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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin

News: "After a full and frank exchange of views, the two leaders left without a statement." What happened at the meeting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: leave, exchange, happen · To what, where: two leaders, views, meeting

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 24 «Soft words for hard things: 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: News: "After a full and frank exchange of views, the two leaders left without a statement."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 exchange	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 exchange	punct
4	After	after	ADP	_	9 exchange	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 exchange	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 exchange	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 frank	cc
8	frank	frank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 full	conj
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 News	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 views	case
11	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 exchange	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leaders	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leaders	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 leaders	nummod
15	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 exchange	appos
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 leaders	acl
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 statement	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 statement	det
19	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 exchange	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 exchange	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	participle		the two leaders not said here				without a statement	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	exchange in a quote			views					nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=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 happened at the meeting?

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	at	at	ADP	_	5 meeting	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meeting	det
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They went for a walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 walk	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walk	det
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They					for a walk	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They argued seriously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	2 argued	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	They					seriously property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They swapped gifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swapped	nsubj
2	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	They	gifts					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

Option 4

They agreed on everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 everything	case
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agreed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	They					on everything	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on everything=Topic

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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