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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police

A police statement says "an officer-involved shooting occurred on Main Street". What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: police statement · What happens: say, occur, happen · To what, where: involved shooting, Main Street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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: A police statement says "an officer-involved shooting occurred on Main Street".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 statement	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 statement	compound
3	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 shooting	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shooting	det
7	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 involved	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 officer	punct
9	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shooting	amod
10	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
11	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shooting	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 Street	case
13	Main	Main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Street	amod
14	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 occurred	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Street	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a police statement						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	occur in a quote	participle		a involved shooting not said here		Main Street			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on street=Location

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

An officer took photos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 officer	det
2	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a officer	photos					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A police officer shot someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 officer	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	compound
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shot	nsubj
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 shot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	a police officer	someone					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme

Option 3

An officer was hit by a car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 officer	det
2	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux:pass
4	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · passive	a car	a officer					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme

Option 4

There was a shooting game at a fair

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 game	compound
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 fair	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fair	det
8	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a shooting game			a fair; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fair=Location

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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