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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

A man at the market: "Ah, I find myself temporarily embarrassed — could you hold these apples till tomorrow?" Why does he ask?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, man · What happens: find, hold, ask · To what, where: myself, apples

This is test 7 · ★ 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 man at the market: "Ah, I find myself temporarily embarrassed — could you hold these apples till tomorrow?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 market	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 market	det
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
8	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 find	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ah	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 find	obj
13	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	_	14 embarrassed	advmod
14	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 find	xcomp
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hold	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 hold	nsubj
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 apples	det
20	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hold	obj
21	till	till	ADP	_	22 tomorrow	case
22	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	present	I	myself				embarrassed property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
2	hold in a quote	could	a man at the market	this apples			tomorrow		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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: Why does he ask?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ask	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	man						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He has no money with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	no money				with him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

Option 2

He is going on holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive	He	holiday					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He is ashamed of the apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ashamed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ashamed	cop
3	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 apples	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apples	det
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ashamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					of the apples; ashamed property	tree rules

Option 4

He forgot his bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bag	nmod:poss
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He	his bag					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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