Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

Select the response consistent with the established meaning of the designation "economically disadvantaged" as applied to a household.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, apply, mean · To what, where: response, designation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 meaning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meaning	amod
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 designation	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 designation	det
11	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 designation	punct
13	economically	economically	ADV	_	14 disadvantaged	advmod
14	disadvantaged	disadvantaged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 designation	amod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 disadvantaged	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 applied	mark
17	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 disadvantaged	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 household	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 household	det
20	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 applied	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	apply	participle	you not said here		to a household	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean			the designation		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The household is poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 household	det
2	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poor	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the household					poor property	tree rules

Option 2

The household operates a commercial enterprise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 household	det
2	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 operates	nsubj
3	operates	operate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 enterprise	det
5	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 enterprise	amod
6	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 operates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	operate	present	the household	a commercial enterprise					vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme enterprise=Attribute

Option 3

The household resides overseas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 household	det
2	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resides	nsubj
3	resides	reside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	overseas	overseas	ADV	_	3 resides	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reside	present	the household					overseas property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The household lacks knowledge of economics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 household	det
2	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lacks	nsubj
3	lacks	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lacks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 economics	case
6	economics	economics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 knowledge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	present	the household	knowledge of economics					tree rules

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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