--- title: "ugh, the concert ticket was 40 but they added a convenience fee of… — Soft words for hard things: business a… · tree and pragmatics description: "ugh, the concert ticket was 40 but they added a convenience fee of 6" — how much did they pay in all? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: business a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p… "ugh, the concert ticket was 40 but they added a convenience fee of 6" — how much did they pay in all? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** concert ticket, they · **What happens:** be, add, pay · **To what, where:** 40, convenience fee, much, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t1:1 # text = "ugh, the concert ticket was 40 but they added a convenience fee of 6" — how much did they pay in all? 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ugh ugh INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 ticket ticket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 convenience convenience NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 fee fee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the concert ticket | 40 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | they | a convenience fee of 6 | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | past · do-support | they | much | | all | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 34 ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t1:o1:1 # text = 34 1 34 34 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 46 ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t1:o2:1 # text = 46 1 46 46 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t1:o3:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 40 ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t1:o4:1 # text = 40 1 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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