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Test 11 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

A bank calls a family "subprime borrowers". What does the bank think of them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bank · What happens: call, think · To what, where: family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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: A bank calls a family "subprime borrowers".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bank	det
2	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 borrowers	punct
7	subprime	subprime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 borrowers	compound
8	borrowers	borrower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 family	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 borrowers	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a bank	a family					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient

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 does the bank think of them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	the bank					of borrowers = borrower	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They borrow only small sums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 borrow	nsubj
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 sums	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sums	amod
5	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	present	They	small sums					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme

Option 2

They work for the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	They					for the bank	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bank=Beneficiary

Option 3

They are its best customers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 customers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 customers	cop
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 customers	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 customers	amod
5	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	its best customers					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They have a bad credit history

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 history	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 history	amod
5	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 history	compound
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	a bad credit history					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=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.

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