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Test 6 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

Council report: "The meeting saw a robust discussion of the parking plan." What happened at the meeting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: meeting · What happens: see, discuss, happen · To what, where: robust discussion, parking plan, meeting

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: Council report: "The meeting saw a robust discussion of the parking plan."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 report	compound
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meeting	det
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 report	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 discussion	det
9	robust	robust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 discussion	amod
10	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 plan	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plan	det
13	parking	parking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	compound
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discussion	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	the meeting	a robust discussion of the parking plan					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer discussion=Stimulus
2	discuss in a quote			the parking plan					nom discussion «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 happened at the meeting?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 meeting	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meeting	det
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past				the meeting			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at meeting=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

People agreed with no fuss at all, quickly and calmly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fuss	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 fuss	det
5	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 agreed	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fuss	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quickly	punct
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 agreed	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 calmly	cc
11	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	9 quickly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	People					with no fuss at all; quickly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with fuss=Co-Agent

Option 2

People built a car park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 park	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 park	compound
5	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	People	a car park					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Product

Option 3

People ate a large meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meal	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meal	amod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	People	a large meal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People argued heatedly about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heatedly	heatedly	ADV	_	2 argued	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	People					about it; heatedly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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