Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★
News: "The minister misspoke, was relieved of his duties, and his party said lessons had been learned." What happened to the minister in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: minister, party · What happens: misspeak, be, say, learn, happen · To what, where: lessons, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» 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: News: "The minister misspoke, was relieved of his duties, and his party said lessons had been learned."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 misspoke | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 misspoke | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 minister | det |
| 5 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 misspoke | nsubj |
| 6 | misspoke | misspeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 relieved | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 relieved | cop |
| 9 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 misspoke | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 duties | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 duties | nmod:poss |
| 12 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 relieved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 party | nmod:poss |
| 16 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 misspoke | conj |
| 18 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 learned | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 learned | aux:pass |
| 21 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 misspoke | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 misspoke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | misspeak in a quote | past | the minister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the minister not said here | of minister's duties; relieved property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | minister's party | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | learn in a quote | past · 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 happened to the minister in the end?
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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 minister | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 minister | det |
| 5 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | in the end | to the minister | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He won an award
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 won | nsubj |
| 2 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 award | det |
| 4 | award | award | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 won | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | He | a award | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent award=Eventuality |
Option 2
He was promoted
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 | 3 promoted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promoted | aux:pass |
| 3 | promoted | promote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promote | past · passive | He | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
He went on holiday
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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 holiday | case |
| 4 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | He | holiday | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He lost his job
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 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 job | nmod:poss |
| 4 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | He | his job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | job | his = he | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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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