Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence
A company boss: "We provide private military contractors abroad." What does the company sell?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: We, company · What happens: provide, sell · To what, where: private military contractors
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 26 «Soft words for hard things: 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 company boss: "We provide private military contractors abroad."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boss | det |
| 2 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boss | compound |
| 3 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 provide | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 provide | punct |
| 6 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 provide | nsubj |
| 7 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boss | acl:relcl |
| 8 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 contractors | amod |
| 9 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 contractors | amod |
| 10 | contractors | contractor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 provide | obj |
| 11 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 7 provide | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 provide | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 provide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide in a quote | present | We | private military contractors | abroad property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition contractor=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 does the company sell?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 sell | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sell | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 company | det |
| 4 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sell | nsubj |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present · do-support | the company | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Hired soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soldiers | amod |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Holidays for soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 soldiers | case |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Holidays | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Building work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 work | compound |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Army food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 food | compound |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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