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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin

Report: "Thousands of internally displaced persons sheltered in schools." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: displace, shelter, be · To what, where: displaced persons, schools

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Report: "Thousands of internally displaced persons sheltered in schools."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Thousands	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Thousands	punct
4	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Report	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 persons	case
6	internally	internally	ADV	_	7 displaced	advmod
7	displaced	displace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 persons	amod
8	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Thousands	nmod
9	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 persons	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 schools	case
11	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sheltered	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Report	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	displace in a quote	participle						internally property	tree rules
2	shelter in a quote	participle		displaced persons not said here		schools			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in school=Location

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They moved abroad to another country to find work

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 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 moved	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 moved	advcl
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	They			another country		abroad property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to country=Trajectory
2	find	to-infinitive	They not said here	work					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic

Option 2

They were tourists

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	3 tourists	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tourists	cop
3	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	tourists					tree rules

Option 3

They were teachers

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	3 teachers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 teachers	cop
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	teachers					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They fled their homes but stayed in their country

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 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 homes	nmod:poss
4	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fled	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 stayed	cc
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fled	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 country	nmod:poss
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They	their homes					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Initial_Location
2	stay	past	They not said here			homes's country			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

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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