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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin

A spokesman says: "We are reviewing our options." What has the government decided?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: spokesman, We, our, government · What happens: say, review, opt, have, decide · To what, where: options · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: A spokesman says: "We are reviewing our options."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spokesman	det
2	spokesman	spokesman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 reviewing	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 reviewing	punct
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 reviewing	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reviewing	aux
8	reviewing	review	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 says	ccomp
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 options	nmod:poss
10	options	option	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reviewing	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reviewing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 reviewing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a spokesman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	review in a quote	present · progressive	We	our options					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=Theme
3	opt in a quote		our						nom option «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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 has the government decided?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 government	det
4	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decided	nsubj
5	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	decide	past	the government						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

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

Nothing yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	1 Nothing	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

To resign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 resign	mark
2	resign	resign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resign	to-infinitive							vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To go to war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive				war			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location

Option 4

To cut taxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cut	mark
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	to-infinitive		taxes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tax=Product

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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