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Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

"Called it an honest mistake, but he kept the change three times." Why might the speaker doubt it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, speaker · What happens: call, keep, doubt · To what, where: it, change · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 35 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» 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: "Called it an honest mistake, but he kept the change three times."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Called	punct
2	Called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Called	obj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mistake	det
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mistake	amod
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Called	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 change	det
12	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kept	obl:unmarked
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Called	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert in a quote	participle		it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	keep in a quote	past	he	the change			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme

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: Why might the speaker doubt it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 doubt	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 doubt	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doubt	nsubj
5	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doubt	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doubt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	might	the speaker	change					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Honest mistakes happen three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mistakes	amod
2	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	nsubj
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl:unmarked

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

Option 2

He gave the money back

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	past	He	the money					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Doing it three times looks like it was on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 looks	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Doing	obj
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Doing	obl:unmarked
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 purpose	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 purpose	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		it			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	look	present	Doing						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	it					like purpose	tree rules

Option 4

Change is always kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		Change				always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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