Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

Select the response consistent with the established meaning of the official expression "person experiencing homelessness".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, experience, mean · To what, where: response, official expression

This is exam question 3 of lesson 19 «Soft words for hard things: 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	_	12 expression	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 expression	det
11	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 expression	amod
12	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 expression	punct
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 experiencing	compound
15	experiencing	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 homelessness	amod
16	homelessness	homelessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 expression	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 homelessness	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	experience in a quote	gerund			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	mean			the official expression	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

A person on holiday away from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 holiday	case
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 person	nmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl

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

Option 2

A person engaged in the construction of dwellings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 person	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 construction	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 construction	det
6	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engaged	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dwellings	case
8	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 construction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	participle		a person not said here				in the construction of dwellings goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in construction=Goal
2	construct			dwellings					nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A person without a home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 home	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 home	det
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 person	nmod

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

Option 4

A person in the process of relocating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 process	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 process	det
5	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 person	nmod
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 relocating	mark
7	relocating	relocate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 process	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relocate	gerund	the process not said here						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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