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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin a…

A senator is accused of adding "earmarks" to the budget. What is he accused of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accuse, add · To what, where: senator, earmarks

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 25 «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence» 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 senator is accused of adding "earmarks" to the budget.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 senator	det
2	senator	senator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accused	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accused	aux:pass
4	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 adding	mark
6	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 accused	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 earmarks	punct
8	earmarks	earmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 adding	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 earmarks	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 budget	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 budget	det
12	budget	budget	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adding	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accuse	present · passive		a senator					vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme
2	add speech: assert	gerund		earmarks				to the budget	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent earmark=Patient to budget=Co-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 is he accused of?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 accused	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accused	aux:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accused	nsubj
4	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 accused	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 accused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accuse	present · passive							vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Marking the pages with his ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marking	mark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pages	det
3	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Marking	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Marking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	gerund		the pages				with his ears	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent page=Destination with ear=Theme

Option 2

Cutting the budget

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 budget	det
3	budget	budget	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cutting	obj

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

Option 3

Signing the budget late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Signing	sign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 budget	det
3	budget	budget	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Signing	obj
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Signing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign	gerund		the budget				late property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent budget=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Setting money aside for pet local projects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Setting	obj
3	aside	aside	ADV	_	1 Setting	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 projects	case
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 projects	compound
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 projects	amod
7	projects	project	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Setting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	gerund		money				for pet local projects; aside property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent money=Patient for project=Beneficiary

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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