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description: "they called it re-education but nobody could leave" — what was it really? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 24 «Soft words for hard things: 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; Mova's choice w
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# Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin

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"they called it re-education but nobody could leave" — what was it really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they, nobody · **What happens:** call, leave, be · **To what, where:** it, re-education · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 24 «Soft words for hard things: 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/24-government-spin/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:24-government-spin:t8:1
# text = "they called it re-education but nobody could leave" — what was it really?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	re-education	re-education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | they | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | re-education |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Forced political indoctrination

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:24-government-spin:t8:o1:1
# text = Forced political indoctrination
1	Forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	indoctrination	indoctrination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A holiday camp in the mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:24-government-spin:t8:o2:1
# text = A holiday camp in the mountains
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A school trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:24-government-spin:t8:o3:1
# text = A school trip
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A night class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:24-government-spin:t8:o4:1
# text = A night class
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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