--- title: Taxi prices doubled during the storm. What is this called? — Soft words for hard things: business a… · tree and pragmatics description: Taxi prices doubled during the storm. What is this called? Test 6 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [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/t6/) [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/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p… Taxi prices doubled during the storm. What is this called? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Taxi prices · **What happens:** double, call · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Taxi prices doubled during the storm. ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t6:1 # text = Taxi prices doubled during the storm. 1 Taxi taxi NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 doubled double VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 during during ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **double** | past | Taxi prices | | | | during the storm | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 is this called? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t6:2 # text = What is this called? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} A user fee ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t6:o1:1 # text = A user fee 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 user user NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 fee fee NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A service charge ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t6:o2:1 # text = A service charge 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A price cut ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t6:o3:1 # text = A price cut 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Dynamic pricing ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t6:o4:1 # text = Dynamic pricing 1 Dynamic dynamic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pricing pricing NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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