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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

A news line: "Cash-strapped council closes three libraries." Why are the libraries closing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: news line, libraries · What happens: strap, close · To what, where: council, three libraries

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 19 «Soft words for hard things: 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 news line: "Cash-strapped council closes three libraries."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 line	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 line	compound
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closes	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 strapped	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 strapped	punct
6	Cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strapped	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Cash	punct
8	strapped	strap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 line	acl:relcl
9	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strapped	obj
10	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 libraries	nummod
12	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 closes	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 closes	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 closes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strap in a quote	participle	a news line not said here	council					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Patient
2	close in a quote	present	a news line	three libraries					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent library=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.

Sentence 2: Why are the libraries closing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 closing	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 closing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 libraries	det
4	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 closing	nsubj
5	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 closing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present · progressive	the libraries						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The council has too much money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 money	amod
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the council	much money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

Option 2

The libraries are too old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 libraries	det
2	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The council is short of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 short	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 short	cop
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the council					of money; short property	tree rules

Option 4

Nobody reads any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 reads	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Nobody						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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