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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence

A leader calls the invasion of a neighbour a "special military operation". Why use that phrase?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leader, you · What happens: call, invade, use · To what, where: invasion, neighbour, phrase · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 leader calls the invasion of a neighbour a "special military operation".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 invasion	det
5	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 neighbour	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 neighbour	det
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invasion	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 operation	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 operation	punct
11	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 operation	amod
12	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 operation	amod
13	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	xcomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 operation	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a leader	the invasion of a neighbour					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent invasion=Recipient
2	invade			a neighbour					nom invasion «act 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.

Sentence 2: Why use that phrase?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 use	advmod
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 phrase	det
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	that phrase					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because it is a small parade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 parade	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 parade	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 parade	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parade	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parade	amod
6	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a small parade					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To avoid admitting it is a war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 avoid	mark
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	admitting	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 war	csubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 admitting	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 war	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive							vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	admit speech: other	gerund		it					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is a	present	admitting	a war					tree rules

Option 3

Because it is a medical operation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 operation	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 operation	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 operation	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 operation	det
5	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 operation	amod
6	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a medical operation					tree rules

Option 4

Because it is a training game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 game	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 game	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 game	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	compound
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a training game					tree rules

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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