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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence

"Our forces made a tactical redeployment to the river line." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: forces · What happens: make, be · To what, where: tactical redeployment

This is test 3 · ★ 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: "Our forces made a tactical redeployment to the river line."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
2	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 forces	nmod:poss
3	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 redeployment	det
6	tactical	tactical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 redeployment	amod
7	redeployment	redeployment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 line	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 line	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 line	compound
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past	Our forces	a tactical redeployment				to the river line	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset redeployment=Product

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The army got new weapons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weapons	amod
5	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the army	new weapons					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weapon=Stimulus

Option 2

The army went swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the army	swimming					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swimming=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The army retreated to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retreated	nsubj
3	retreated	retreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retreated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retreat	past	the army			the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location

Option 4

The army won a big battle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 battle	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 battle	amod
6	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the army	a big battle					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality

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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