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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

Gossip: "Old Mrs Pike's in reduced circumstances since her husband went, poor dear." What happened to Mrs Pike?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband · What happens: reduce, go, happen · To what, where: Mrs Pike

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Gossip: "Old Mrs Pike's in reduced circumstances since her husband went, poor dear."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
4	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Pike	amod
5	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pike	compound
6	Pike	Pike	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 circumstances	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Pike	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 circumstances	case
9	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 circumstances	amod
10	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dear	nsubj
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dear	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dear	amod
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gossip	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Gossip	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Gossip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce in a quote	participle							vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
2	go in a quote	past	Pike's husband						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 happened to Mrs Pike?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Pike	case
4	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Pike	compound
5	Pike	Pike	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She has become very ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 ill	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present · perfect	She					ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

She moved to a small flat by choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 flat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flat	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flat	amod
6	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 choice	case
8	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	She			a small flat		by choice	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to flat=Source by choice=Trajectory

Option 3

She won the lottery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lottery	det
4	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	She	the lottery					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lottery=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She is poorer than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poorer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poorer	cop
3	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 before	case
5	before	before	ADV	_	3 poorer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					poor property	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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