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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

News: "The charity's treasurer is accused of misappropriation of funds." What is she accused of?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: accuse, misappropriate · To what, where: treasurer, funds

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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: "The charity's treasurer is accused of misappropriation of funds."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 accused	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 accused	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 charity	det
5	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treasurer	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 charity	case
7	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accused	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 accused	aux:pass
9	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 News	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 misappropriation	case
11	misappropriation	misappropriation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accused	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 funds	case
13	funds	fund	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 misappropriation	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accuse in a quote	present · passive		the charity's treasurer				of misappropriation of funds	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme of misappropriation=Attribute
2	misappropriate in a quote			funds					nom misappropriation «act 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.

Sentence 2: What is she accused of?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 accused	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accused	aux:pass
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accused	nsubj
4	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 accused	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 accused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accuse	present · passive							vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1

Counting the money badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 money	det
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obj
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Counting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		the money				badly property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stealing money she was trusted to look after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stealing	obj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trusted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trusted	aux:pass
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Stealing	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trusted	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	7 look	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		money					tree rules
2	trust	past · passive		she					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	look after	to-infinitive							vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Losing the receipts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 receipts	det
3	receipts	receipt	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		the receipts					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent receipt=Eventuality

Option 4

Giving money to the poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 poor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poor	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Giving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		money	the poor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to poor=Recipient

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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