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

Report: "Police were called to disturbances in the city centre." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Report · What happens: call, happen · To what, where: Police, disturbances, city centre · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Report: "Police were called to disturbances in the city centre."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
4	Police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Report	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 disturbances	case
8	disturbances	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 centre	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 centre	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 centre	compound
12	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Report	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	past · passive	Report not said here	Police	disturbances	the city centre			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to disturbance=Recipient

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

There was loud music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 music	amod
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	loud music			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It was raining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raining	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past · progressive	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There were riots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	riots	riot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	riots			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

There was a traffic jam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jam	det
4	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jam	compound
5	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a traffic jam			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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