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Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin a…

A leaked email says: "Today is a good day to bury bad news." What is the writer planning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leaked email, Today, writer planning · What happens: leak, say, be, bury · To what, where: good day, bad news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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 leaked email says: "Today is a good day to bury bad news."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 email	det
2	leaked	leak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 email	amod
3	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
7	Today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 day	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bury	mark
13	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 day	acl
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 news	amod
15	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bury	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak	participle							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	say speech: assert	present	a leaked email						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Today	a good day					tree rules
4	bury in a quote	to-infinitive	a leaked email not said here	bad news					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme

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 the writer planning?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 planning	det
4	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 planning	compound
5	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the writer planning						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To cancel the news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cancel	mark
2	cancel	cancel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 news	det
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cancel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	to-infinitive		the news					tree rules

Option 2

To hold a funeral for an old friend from work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hold	mark
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 funeral	det
4	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 friend	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	to-infinitive		a funeral		work		for a old friend	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To release bad news when nobody will notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 release	mark
2	release	release	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 news	amod
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 release	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 notice	advmod
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 notice	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 release	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	to-infinitive		bad news					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer news=Source
2	notice	future	nobody						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

To bury a time capsule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bury	mark
2	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 capsule	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 capsule	compound
5	capsule	capsule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bury	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	to-infinitive		a time capsule					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capsule=Theme

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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