Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty
A charity sign: "Your coins help rough sleepers stay warm tonight." Who is helped?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: coins, charity sign, Your · What happens: help, stay, coin · To what, where: rough sleepers
This is test 9 · ★ 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 charity sign: "Your coins help rough sleepers stay warm tonight."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 2 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sign | compound |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coins | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 help | nsubj |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sign | acl |
| 9 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleepers | amod |
| 10 | sleepers | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 help | obj |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tonight | amod |
| 13 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | present | Your coins | rough sleepers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeper=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | present | a charity sign | tonight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | coin in a quote | Your | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=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 is helped?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 helped | aux:pass |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · passive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
People who sleep badly
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 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 sleep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | People | badly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Homeless people sleeping outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homeless | homeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 people | acl |
| 4 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 sleeping | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | gerund | Homeless people not said here | outside property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Campers in the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Campers | camper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hills | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hills | det |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Campers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Children having a sleepover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Children | acl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sleepover | det |
| 4 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Children not said here | a sleepover | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleepover=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/t9/