--- title: An auditor (someone who checks a firm's money records) finds "creati… — Soft words for hard things: business a… · tree and pragmatics description: An auditor (someone who checks a firm's money records) finds "creative accounting" in the books. What has she found? 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What has she found? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** auditor, firm · **What happens:** check, find, record · **To what, where:** money records, creative accounting, books This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* An auditor (someone who checks a firm's money records) finds "creative accounting" in the books. ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t12:1 # text = An auditor (someone who checks a firm's money records) finds "creative accounting" in the books. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 auditor auditor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 appos _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 firm firm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 records record NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 13 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 creative creative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 accounting accounting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present | | a firm's money records | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present | a auditor | creative accounting | | the books | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accounting=Topic | | 3 | **record** | | a firm | | | | | | nom record «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 has she found? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t12:2 # text = What has she found? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · perfect | auditor | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Pretty drawings in the margins ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t12:o1:1 # text = Pretty drawings in the margins 1 Pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 drawings drawing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 margins margin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Misleading or dishonest figures ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t12:o2:1 # text = Misleading or dishonest figures 1 Misleading misleading ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 dishonest dishonest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 4 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} A new art budget ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t12:o3:1 # text = A new art budget 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Very accurate figures ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t12:o4:1 # text = Very accurate figures 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 accurate accurate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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