Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence

Identify the meaning of "the final solution" as employed by the National Socialist regime.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, mean · To what, where: meaning, final solution

This is exam question 2 of lesson 26 «Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 solution	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 solution	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 solution	det
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 solution	amod
8	solution	solution	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 solution	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 employed	mark
11	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 regime	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 regime	det
14	National	National	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 regime	amod
15	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 regime	compound
16	regime	regime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the final solution		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	employ	participle	you not said here		by the National Socialist regime	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean			the final solution		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The concluding treaty of the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 treaty	det
2	concluding	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 treaty	amod
3	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 war	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 war	det
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treaty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude	gerund							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

The reconstruction of German cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reconstruction	det
2	reconstruction	reconstruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cities	case
4	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cities	amod
5	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reconstruction	nmod

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

Option 3

The final examination of officers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 examination	det
2	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 examination	amod
3	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 officers	case
5	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 examination	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	examine			officers					nom examination «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The plan to murder all the Jews of Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 murder	mark
4	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 plan	acl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Jews	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Jews	det
7	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 murder	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Jews	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	murder	to-infinitive		all Jews of Europe					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=Patient

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