Test 1 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…
News line: "Carmaker to cut 2,000 jobs in major restructuring." What is "restructuring" hiding here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: restructuring · What happens: cut, be, hide · To what, where: 2,000 jobs, major restructuring
This is test 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. 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: News line: "Carmaker to cut 2,000 jobs in major restructuring."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 line | compound |
| 2 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carmaker | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carmaker | punct |
| 5 | Carmaker | carmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 line | appos |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Carmaker | acl |
| 8 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 jobs | nummod |
| 9 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 restructuring | case |
| 11 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 restructuring | amod |
| 12 | restructuring | restructuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 line | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 line | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut in a quote | to-infinitive | 2,000 jobs | major restructuring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product |
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: What is "restructuring" hiding here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 restructuring | punct |
| 4 | restructuring | restructuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 restructuring | punct |
| 6 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 restructuring | acl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hiding | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | restructuring | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | restructuring not said here | here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Thousands of job cuts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cuts | case |
| 3 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | compound |
| 4 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
More cars made
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 cars | amod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | More cars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
Option 3
A change of logo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 change | det |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 logo | case |
| 4 | logo | logo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | logo | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 4
A new factory roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 roof | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 roof | amod |
| 3 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roof | compound |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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