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

"the gang wanted him eliminated, that's how bad it got" — what did the gang want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gang, him, that · What happens: want, eliminate, be, do · To what, where: him

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gang	det
3	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 bad	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bad	cop
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bad	aux
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gang	det
19	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 did	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	past	the gang	him = he		tree rules
2	eliminate not said to happen, in a quote	participle	him = he not said here			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	that		bad property	tree rules
4	do	past				tree rules
5	want	infinitive	the gang			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 · ← Mova's choice

Him sent home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Him = he					home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Him out of a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 game	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 game	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Him	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Him killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Him = he						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Him left out of a photo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 photo	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 photo	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 photo	det
6	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	past	Him = he	a photo					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=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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