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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

"Your nan's on a fixed income, so don't expect a big present, ok?" Why no big present?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan · What happens: fix, not expect · To what, where: big present

This is test 8 · ★ 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: "Your nan's on a fixed income, so don't expect a big present, ok?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 expect	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expect	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 nan	case
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 income	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 income	det
7	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 income	amod
8	income	income	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nan	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 expect	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 expect	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 expect	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 expect	advmod
13	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 present	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 present	amod
16	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expect	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ok	punct
18	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 present	amod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 expect	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 expect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix in a quote	participle							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not expect in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Your nan on a fixed income	a big present					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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 no big present?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 present	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 present	amod
4	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nan does not like presents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	Nan	presents					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot present=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nan has little money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 money	amod
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

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

Option 3

Nan is busy fixing things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 busy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 busy	cop
3	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 busy	advcl
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fixing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nan					busy property	tree rules
2	fix	gerund	Nan not said here	things					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 4

Nan already bought one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bought	nsubj
2	already	already	ADV	_	3 bought	advmod
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Nan	one					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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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