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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence

A report says the rebels chose "soft targets" like markets. What does it mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: report, rebels, it · What happens: say, choose, mean · To what, where: soft targets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 report says the rebels chose "soft targets" like markets.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rebels	det
5	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chose	nsubj
6	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 targets	punct
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 targets	amod
9	targets	target	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chose	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 markets	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 markets	case
12	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 targets	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a report						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	choose	past	the rebels	soft targets and markets					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent target=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 it mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They attacked unprotected ordinary people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attacked	nsubj
2	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unprotected	unprotected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past	They	unprotected ordinary people					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2

They picked targets that were easy to miss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	targets	target	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 easy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 targets	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 miss	mark
8	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	They	targets					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent target=Patient
2	is	past	targets					easy property	tree rules
3	miss	to-infinitive	targets not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They attacked pillow shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attacked	nsubj
2	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shops	compound
4	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past	They	pillow shops					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient

Option 4

They attacked well-guarded army bases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attacked	nsubj
2	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 guarded	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bases	amod
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bases	compound
7	bases	basis	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past	They	guarded army bases					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basis=Patient
2	guard	participle						well property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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