Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin

"they called it re-education but nobody could leave" — what was it really?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, nobody · What happens: call, leave, be · To what, where: it, re-education · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	re-education	re-education	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 leave	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 leave	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 leave	aux
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 leave	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 called	parataxis
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 what	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	12 what	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call speech: assert in a quote	past	they	it	tree rules
2	leave in a quote	could	nobody		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		re-education	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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Forced political indoctrination

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 indoctrination	amod
2	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 indoctrination	amod
3	indoctrination	indoctrination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	participle							vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A holiday camp in the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 camp	det
2	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 camp	compound
3	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 camp	nmod

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

Option 3

A school trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trip	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trip	compound
3	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A night class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 class	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 class	compound
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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