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Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

Boss on the phone: "The meeting went sideways, the client walked out." How did the meeting go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Boss, client, meeting · What happens: go, walk out

This is test 12 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: 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: Boss on the phone: "The meeting went sideways, the client walked out."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boss	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meeting	det
8	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walked	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 client	det
13	client	client	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walked	nsubj
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 walked	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	Boss on the phone					sideways property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk out in a quote	past	the client						vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=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: How did the meeting go?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the meeting						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Nobody						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It was moved to a new room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moved	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	aux:pass
3	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past · passive		It		a new room			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to room=Trajectory

Option 3

Very well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 well	advmod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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