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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

Tom reckons "food insecure" means scared of vegetables. Right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, food insecure · What happens: reckon, mean

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Tom reckons "food insecure" means scared of vegetables.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 insecure	punct
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 insecure	compound
5	insecure	insecure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 insecure	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	parataxis
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 vegetables	case
10	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scared	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Tom						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	food insecure					scared property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

No, it means the fridge is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fridge	det
6	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broken	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 broken	aux:pass
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	present · passive		the fridge					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Yes, it means a picky eater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eater	det
6	picky	picky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eater	amod
7	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	a picky eater					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Topic

Option 3

Yes, it means allergic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					allergic property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it means not able to afford enough food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 able	advmod
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 afford	mark
8	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 afford	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					able property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	afford	to-infinitive		enough food					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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