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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

News: "The company massaged the numbers to hide its losses." What did the company do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: News, company · What happens: massage, hide, do · To what, where: numbers, losses

This is test 3 · ★ 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: News: "The company massaged the numbers to hide its losses."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 massaged	nsubj:outer
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 massaged	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 massaged	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 massaged	nsubj
6	massaged	massage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 numbers	det
8	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 massaged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hide	mark
10	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 massaged	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 losses	nmod:poss
12	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hide	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 massaged	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 massaged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	massage in a quote	past	News	the numbers					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Experiencer
2	hide in a quote	to-infinitive	News not said here	company's losses					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=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 did the company do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the company						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Changed its figures to look better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 figures	nmod:poss
3	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Changed	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Changed	advcl
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past		its figures					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive						good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	figure		its = it						nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Paid a masseur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 masseur	det
3	masseur	masseur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past		a masseur					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent masseur=Asset

Option 3

Counted its money gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 money	nmod:poss
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counted	obj
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Counted	advmod

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

Option 4

Showed its real losses honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 losses	nmod:poss
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 losses	amod
4	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Showed	obj
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	1 Showed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past		its real losses				honestly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent loss=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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