Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…
Identify the meaning of an "enhanced pat-down" as conducted pursuant to airport security regulations.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, enhance, conduct, mean · To what, where: meaning, enhanced pat down
This is exam question 2 of lesson 28 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meaning | det |
| 3 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 down | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 down | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 down | punct |
| 7 | enhanced | enhance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 down | amod |
| 8 | pat | pat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 down | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 down | punct |
| 10 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meaning | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 down | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 conducted | mark |
| 13 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Identify | advcl |
| 14 | pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 13 conducted | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 regulations | case |
| 16 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 security | compound |
| 17 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 regulations | compound |
| 18 | regulations | regulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pursuant | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the meaning of a enhanced pat down | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enhance in a quote | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | conduct | participle | you not said here | pursuant property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | a enhanced pat down | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A thorough search of the body
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 search | det |
| 2 | thorough | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 search | amod |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 body | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 search | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | the body | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
An expedited passage without inspection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 passage | det |
| 2 | expedited | expedite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passage | amod |
| 3 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 inspection | case |
| 5 | inspection | inspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passage | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expedite | participle | tree rules |
Option 3
A courteous pat upon the shoulder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pat | det |
| 2 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pat | amod |
| 3 | pat | pat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 shoulder | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shoulder | det |
| 6 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A complimentary massage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 massage | det |
| 2 | complimentary | complimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 massage | amod |
| 3 | massage | massage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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