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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

A politician says: "We will support residents of our most deprived areas." Who will be helped?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: politician, We · What happens: say, support, deprive, help · To what, where: residents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 politician says: "We will support residents of our most deprived areas."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 politician	det
2	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 support	punct
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 support	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 support	aux
8	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	residents	resident	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 support	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 areas	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 areas	nmod:poss
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 deprived	advmod
13	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 areas	amod
14	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 residents	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 support	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 support	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a politician						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	support in a quote	future	We	residents of our deprived areas					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer resident=Stimulus
3	deprive in a quote	participle							vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Who will be helped?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 helped	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 helped	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 helped	aux:pass
4	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	future · passive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

People who lost their homes in a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 homes	nmod:poss
5	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 storm	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 storm	det
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	People	People's homes		a storm			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality

Option 2

People who need more sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sleep	amod
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	People	more sleep					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme

Option 3

People who live in the countryside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 countryside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 countryside	det
6	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	People			the countryside			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in countryside=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People in the poorest neighbourhoods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 neighbourhoods	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbourhoods	det
4	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 neighbourhoods	amod
5	neighbourhoods	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 People	nmod

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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