Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an employee subject to "involuntary separation"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: employee subject

This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 subject	det
10	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 subject	compound
11	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 separation	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 separation	punct
14	involuntary	involuntary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 separation	amod
15	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 separation	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a employee subject				of the following statements; to involuntary separation; accurately property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The employee has resigned of his own accord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resigned	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 resigned	aux
4	resigned	resign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 accord	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 accord	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 accord	amod
8	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resigned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resign	present · perfect · passive		the employee				of his own accord	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

Option 2

The employee has been granted leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granted	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 granted	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 granted	aux:pass
5	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	present · perfect · passive		the employee					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal leave=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The employee has been dismissed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dismissed	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dismissed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 dismissed	aux:pass
5	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dismiss	present · perfect · passive		the employee					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The employee has transferred departments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 transferred	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 transferred	aux
4	transferred	transfer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	departments	department	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 transferred	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transfer	present · perfect · passive		the employee					vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Recipient department=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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