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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police

"The suspect is known to police," says the reporter. What does it tell you?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reporter, suspect · What happens: know, say, tell · To what, where: suspect, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: "The suspect is known to police," says the reporter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 suspect	det
3	suspect	suspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 known	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux:pass
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 police	case
7	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 known	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reporter	det
12	reporter	reporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present · passive		the suspect				to police	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	the reporter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	suspect		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

He is a police officer

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 officer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 officer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 officer	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 officer	compound
5	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

He is a lost child

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 child	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 child	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	He	a lost child					tree rules

Option 3

He is a friend of the police chief

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 friend	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friend	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 chief	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chief	det
7	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chief	compound
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friend	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a friend				of the police chief	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He has a criminal record

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 record	det
4	criminal	criminal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 record	amod
5	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	a criminal record					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Patient

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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