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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

A newspaper writes that the MP was "tired and emotional" in Parliament. What are they really saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: newspaper, MP, they · What happens: write, be, say · To what, where: Parliament · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 29 «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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 newspaper writes that the MP was "tired and emotional" in Parliament.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 newspaper	det
2	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 tired	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 MP	det
6	MP	mp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tired	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tired	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tired	punct
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 writes	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 emotional	cc
11	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tired	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tired	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Parliament	case
14	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a newspaper			Parliament			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	the MP					tired property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		the MP not said here						tree rules

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 are they really saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	obj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 saying	advmod
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was drunk

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	3 drunk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux:pass
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		He					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

He gave a moving speech

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 speech	det
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 speech	amod
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	a moving speech					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme
2	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He needed sleep

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 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	He	sleep					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme

Option 4

He was crying about bad news

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	3 crying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	aux
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 news	case
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 news	amod
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	He					about bad news	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about news=Topic

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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