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Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…

Report from a company: "Sales this year were suboptimal." What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Report · What happens: be, happen

This is test 2 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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 from a company: "Sales this year were suboptimal."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suboptimal	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 company	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 company	det
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Report	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 suboptimal	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 suboptimal	punct
7	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 suboptimal	nsubj
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Sales	nmod:unmarked
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 suboptimal	cop
11	suboptimal	suboptimal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 suboptimal	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 suboptimal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Report from a company					suboptimal property	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 really happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sales stopped completely forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 stopped	advmod
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 stopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Sales					completely, forever property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Sales were exactly as planned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 planned	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 planned	aux:pass
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 planned	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 planned	advmod
5	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past · passive		Sales				exactly property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sales were poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poor	cop
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Sales were excellent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 excellent	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 excellent	cop
3	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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