Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Euphemisms / Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… / t1

Test 1 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Headline: "Talks end after 'frank exchange of views' between the two leaders." What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Talks · What happens: end, happen

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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: Headline: "Talks end after 'frank exchange of views' between the two leaders."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct
4	Talks	talk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Headline	nmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 exchange	case
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 exchange	punct
8	frank	frank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 exchange	amod
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 views	case
11	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 exchange	conj
12	'	's	PART	_	11 views	case
13	between	between	ADP	_	16 leaders	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 leaders	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 leaders	nummod
16	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 exchange	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end in a quote	present	Talks				after frank exchange between the two leaders and views		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

The leaders swapped houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaders	det
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swapped	nsubj
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	the leaders	houses					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 2

The leaders agreed on everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaders	det
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 agreed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the leaders					on everything	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on everything=Topic

Option 3

The leaders became friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaders	det
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the leaders	friends					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The leaders argued angrily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaders	det
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 argued	nsubj
3	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	3 argued	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	the leaders					angrily property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/t1/