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Test 13 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

"Under the law of that country the ultimate penalty still exists." What does the law still allow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ultimate penalty, law · What happens: exist, allow · To what, where: law

This is test 13 · ★ 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: "Under the law of that country the ultimate penalty still exists."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 exists	punct
2	Under	under	ADP	_	4 law	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 law	det
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exists	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 law	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 penalty	det
9	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 penalty	amod
10	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exists	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 exists	advmod
12	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 exists	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 exists	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist in a quote	present	the ultimate penalty			the law of that country	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under law=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 does the law still allow?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 allow	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allow	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 law	det
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allow	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 allow	advmod
6	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 allow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · do-support	the law				still		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1

Banning players for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banning	ban	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Banning	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Banning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	gerund		players				for life	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer player=Theme

Option 2

Sending people abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sending	obj
3	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	1 Sending	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		people				abroad property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

Option 3

Huge fines for parking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fines	amod
2	fines	fine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 parking	case
4	parking	parking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fines	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Executing criminals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Executing	execute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	criminals	criminal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Executing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	execute	gerund		criminals					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criminal=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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