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Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

It is given that a public official asserts that he "misremembered" the circumstances of an occurrence. Which of the following most accurately characterises the likely import of this assertion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: public official, official · What happens: give, assert, misremember, follow, be · To what, where: It, circumstances · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 34 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a public official asserts that he "misremembered" the circumstances of an occurrence.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 asserts	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 official	det
6	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 official	amod
7	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asserts	nsubj
8	asserts	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 misremembered	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 misremembered	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 misremembered	punct
12	misremembered	misremember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asserts	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 misremembered	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 circumstances	det
15	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 misremembered	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 occurrence	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 occurrence	det
18	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 circumstances	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	assert	present	a public official						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	misremember in a quote	past	official	the circumstances of a occurrence					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: Which of the following most accurately characterises the likely import of this assertion?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 import	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	10 import	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 import	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 import	case
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	10 import	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 import	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 import	det
9	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 import	amod
10	import	import	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 assertion	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 assertion	det
13	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 import	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 import	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present						of the likely import; of this assertion; accurately property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The official declined to provide any account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 official	det
2	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 declined	nsubj
3	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 provide	mark
5	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 declined	xcomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 account	det
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 provide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past	the official						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not provide	to-infinitive	the official not said here	any account					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition account=Theme

Option 2

The official provided an exceptionally accurate account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 official	det
2	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provided	nsubj
3	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 account	det
5	exceptionally	exceptionally	ADV	_	6 accurate	advmod
6	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 account	amod
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provided	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past	the official	a accurate account					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition account=Theme

Option 3

The official suffers from a diagnosed disorder of memory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 official	det
2	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffers	nsubj
3	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 disorder	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 disorder	det
6	diagnosed	diagnose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 disorder	amod
7	disorder	disorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffers	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 memory	case
9	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disorder	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present	the official			a diagnosed disorder of memory			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	diagnose	participle							vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	disorder			memory					nom disorder «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The official provided a false account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 official	det
2	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provided	nsubj
3	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 account	det
5	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 account	amod
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provided	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past	the official	a false account					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition account=Theme

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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