Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police
News: "A 34-year-old man is helping police with their inquiries after the robbery." What is really happening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: News, police · What happens: help, inquire, happen · To what, where: police
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 27 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» 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: News: "A 34-year-old man is helping police with their inquiries after the robbery."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helping | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 helping | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 5 | 34 | 34 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 year | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 34 | punct |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 old | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 year | punct |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helping | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 helping | aux |
| 12 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 helping | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 inquiries | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 inquiries | nmod:poss |
| 16 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 helping | obl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 robbery | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 robbery | det |
| 19 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inquiries | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 helping | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 helping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | present · progressive | News | police | with police's inquiries after the robbery | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent police=Beneficiary with inquiry=Theme | |||
| 2 | inquire in a quote | police | after the robbery | nom inquiry «cognition transitive»: poss=agent after=obl |
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 really happening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happening | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happening | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 happening | advmod |
| 4 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happening | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He is being questioned as a suspect in the robbery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 questioned | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 questioned | aux:pass |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 questioned | aux:pass |
| 4 | questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 suspect | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 suspect | det |
| 7 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 questioned | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 robbery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 robbery | det |
| 10 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 questioned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | present · passive | He | the robbery | as a suspect | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Recipient as suspect=Attribute |
Option 2
He is a witness who saw nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 witness | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 witness | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 witness | det |
| 4 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 witness | acl:relcl |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | a witness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a witness | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
Option 3
He found the stolen money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 money | amod |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | He | the stolen money | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic | ||||
| 2 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
He is a volunteer detective
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 detective | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 detective | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 detective | det |
| 4 | volunteer | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detective | compound |
| 5 | detective | detective | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | a volunteer detective | 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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