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Test 6 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

The minister on TV: "Mistakes were made, and lessons have been learned." What is she admitting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: minister, she · What happens: make, learn, admit · To what, where: Mistakes, lessons

This is test 6 of lesson 34 «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: The minister on TV: "Mistakes were made, and lessons have been learned."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 minister	det
2	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 TV	case
4	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 minister	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 minister	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 learned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 learned	cc
12	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learned	nsubj:pass
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 learned	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 learned	aux:pass
15	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 made	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 minister	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 minister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past · passive	the minister on TV not said here	Mistakes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	learn in a quote	present · perfect · passive		lessons					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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 is she admitting?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 admitting	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 admitting	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 admitting	nsubj
4	admitting	admit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 admitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	present · progressive	she						vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That they won an award

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 won	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 award	det
5	award	award	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	That	a award					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent award=Eventuality

Option 2

That they did nothing wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 did	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	That	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 3

That they will go back to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 go	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	future	That					to school result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That they failed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 failed	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 failed	nsubj
3	failed	fail	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	fail	past	That						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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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