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Test 4 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

A politician: "This isn't job cuts, it's rightsizing." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: This, politician · What happens: not be, rightsize, be · To what, where: job cuts

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 politician: "This isn't job cuts, it's rightsizing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 politician	det
2	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rightsizing	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 cuts	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cuts	punct
5	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cuts	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cuts	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cuts	advmod
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cuts	compound
9	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 politician	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 politician	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rightsizing	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rightsizing	aux
13	rightsizing	rightsize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rightsizing	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 rightsizing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	This	job cuts					tree rules
2	rightsize in a quote	present · progressive	a politician and job cuts						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.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is still cutting jobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cutting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cutting	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 cutting	advmod
4	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present · progressive	It	jobs			still		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material job=Product

Option 2

It means making uniforms fit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fit	csubj
4	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 making	obj
5	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	gerund		uniforms					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset uniform=Product
3	fit	present	making						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It means hiring more people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hiring	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hiring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hire not said to happen	gerund		more people					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

Option 4

It means paying people more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paying	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay not said to happen	gerund		people					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Asset

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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