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Test 3 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

A company email: "As part of streamlining, the Leeds office will close." What will happen to the Leeds workers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: part, company email · What happens: streamline, close, happen

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 company email: "As part of streamlining, the Leeds office will close."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 email	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 email	compound
3	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 part	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 part	punct
6	As	as	ADP	_	7 part	case
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 email	appos
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 streamlining	mark
9	streamlining	streamline	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 part	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 email	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 office	det
12	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 office	compound
13	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 close	aux
15	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	streamline in a quote	gerund	part not said here						vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	close in a quote	future	a company email						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 will happen to the Leeds workers?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 workers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 workers	det
6	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 workers	compound
7	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future						to the Leeds workers	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

They will get a pay rise

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	3 get	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rise	det
5	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	compound
6	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	They	a pay rise					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rise=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are likely to lose their jobs

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	3 likely	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lose	mark
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 jobs	nmod:poss
7	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					likely property	tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive	They not said here	their jobs					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	job		their = they						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

They will swim in a stream

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	3 swim	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	future	They			a stream			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Trajectory

Option 4

They will get faster computers

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	3 get	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 computers	amod
5	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	They	faster computers					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer computer=Stimulus

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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