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title: Headline: "Talks end after 'frank exchange of views' between the two… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Headline: "Talks end after 'frank exchange of views' between the two leaders." What really happened? Test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

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Headline: "Talks end after 'frank exchange of views' between the two leaders." What really happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Talks · **What happens:** end, happen

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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/40-with-all-due-respect/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Headline: "Talks end after 'frank exchange of views' between the two leaders."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t1:1
# text = Headline: "Talks end after 'frank exchange of views' between the two leaders."
1	Headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	nmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	frank	frank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** *in a quote* | present | Talks |  |  |  | after frank exchange between the two leaders and views |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What really happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t1:2
# text = What really happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The leaders swapped houses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t1:o1:1
# text = The leaders swapped houses
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swapped	swap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | past | the leaders | houses |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The leaders agreed on everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t1:o2:1
# text = The leaders agreed on everything
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the leaders |  |  |  |  | on everything | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on everything=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The leaders became friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t1:o3:1
# text = The leaders became friends
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the leaders | friends |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The leaders argued angrily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t1:o4:1
# text = The leaders argued angrily
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | the leaders |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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