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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin

An old newspaper: "The plan was built for plausible deniability." What does it suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old newspaper, plan · What happens: build, suggest · To what, where: plan

This is test 10 · ★ 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: An old newspaper: "The plan was built for plausible deniability."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 newspaper	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 newspaper	amod
3	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 built	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 built	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 built	aux:pass
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 newspaper	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 deniability	case
11	plausible	plausible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deniability	amod
12	deniability	deniability	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 deniability	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 deniability	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build in a quote	past · passive	a old newspaper not said here	the plan				for plausible deniability	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for deniability=Asset

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 it suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	plan						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leaders could claim they did not know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 claim	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 claim	aux
3	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 claim	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	could	Leaders						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	past · do-support	Leaders = leader						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The plan was on the news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 news	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 news	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 news	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 news	det
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the plan			the news			tree rules

Option 3

The plan was very believable to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believable	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believable	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 believable	advmod
5	believable	believable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 believable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the plan					to everyone; believable property	tree rules

Option 4

Nobody could deny the plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 deny	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 deny	aux
3	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deny	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deny	could	Nobody	the plan					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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