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Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence

"Bloody hell, they're calling a three-year war a 'conflict' now." What is the speaker angry about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, speaker · What happens: call, be · To what, where: year war · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: "Bloody hell, they're calling a three-year war a 'conflict' now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
2	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hell	amod
3	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 calling	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 calling	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 calling	aux
7	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hell	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 war	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 year	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 three	punct
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 war	compound
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calling	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 conflict	det
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 conflict	punct
15	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calling	xcomp
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 conflict	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 calling	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	present · progressive	they	a year war			now		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent war=Recipient

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 is the speaker angry about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speaker	amod
6	about	about	ADP	_	5 angry	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

There was no fighting at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fighting	det
4	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no fighting			all; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A war is being given a softer name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 given	aux:pass
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 name	det
7	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 name	amod
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		a war					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme

Option 3

A conflict is worse than a war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 conflict	det
2	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worse	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worse	cop
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 war	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a conflict					than a war; bad property	tree rules

Option 4

The war only lasted three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lasted	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 lasted	advmod
4	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	the war				day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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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