Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★

Which one is a white lie, not a serious lie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be · To what, where: white lie

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lie	amod
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lie	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lie	det
10	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lie	amod
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which one	a white lie and a serious lie					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A thief telling porkies to the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 thief	acl
4	porkies	porky	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 telling	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 police	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 police	det
7	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	a thief not said here	porkies	the police				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Topic to police=Recipient

Option 2

A minister "misremembering" a secret payment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 minister	det
2	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 misremembering	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 misremembering	punct
4	misremembering	misremember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 misremembering	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 payment	det
7	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 payment	amod
8	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 misremembering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misremember in a quote	gerund	a minister	a secret payment					tree rules

Option 3

Hiding the real cost of a new bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cost	det
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cost	amod
4	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bridge	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridge	amod
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		the real cost of a new bridge					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient
2	cost			a new bridge					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Love the jumper, Nan!" about one you dislike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Love	punct
2	Love	love	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 one	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jumper	det
4	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Love	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Nan	punct
6	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Love	vocative
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Love	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Love	punct
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 dislike	nsubj
12	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love in a quote	infinitive		the jumper				Nan vocative	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jumper=Stimulus
2	dislike	present	you						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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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