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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

A man jokes, "I'm not poor, I'm financially challenged!" What is he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: joke, not be, challenge, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A man jokes, "I'm not poor, I'm financially challenged!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jokes	nsubj
3	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 poor	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poor	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 poor	advmod
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jokes	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 challenged	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 challenged	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 challenged	aux
13	financially	financially	ADV	_	14 challenged	advmod
14	challenged	challenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 poor	advcl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 challenged	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jokes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	a man						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	a man = man					poor property	tree rules
3	challenge in a quote	present · passive	a man = man					financially property	tree rules

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 he?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	man						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Good with money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 money	case
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Good	obl

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

Option 3

A banker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 banker	det
2	banker	banker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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