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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

Report on a minister: "His answers were less than candid." What does the report say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Report, His · What happens: be, answer, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Report on a minister: "His answers were less than candid."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 less	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 minister	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minister	det
4	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Report	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 less	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 less	punct
7	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 answers	nmod:poss
8	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 less	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 less	cop
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 candid	case
12	candid	candid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 less	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 less	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 less	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Report on a minister					than candid; less property	tree rules
2	answer in a quote		His = he						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 report say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the report						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 dishonest in his answers

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 dishonest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dishonest	cop
3	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 answers	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 answers	nmod:poss
6	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dishonest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			his answers		dishonest property	tree rules
2	answer		his = he						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

His answers were too short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 answers	nmod:poss
2	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 short	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 short	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His answers					short property	tree rules
2	answer		His = he						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He was very honest

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	4 honest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 honest	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 honest	advmod
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					honest property	tree rules

Option 4

He spoke too sweetly

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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
4	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	He					sweetly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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