Test 5 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

"boss says we're furloughed till March, so like paid holiday??" — is it a paid holiday?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boss · What happens: say, furlough, pay, be · To what, where: we, paid holiday · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 furloughed	nsubj:pass
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 furloughed	aux:pass
6	furloughed	furlough	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 March	case
8	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 furloughed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holiday	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 holiday	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 holiday	case
12	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 holiday	amod
13	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	13 holiday	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 holiday	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 holiday	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 holiday	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 holiday	nsubj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 holiday	det
20	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 holiday	amod
21	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	boss			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	furlough in a quote	present · passive		we	march	tree rules
3	pay in a quote	participle				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pay	participle				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	boss	a paid holiday		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

Yes, it is a paid holiday for everybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 holiday	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 holiday	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 holiday	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 holiday	det
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 holiday	amod
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 everybody	case
9	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 holiday	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle							vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a paid holiday				for everybody	tree rules

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

No, they are sent home, often without pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 often	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 pay	case
10	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive		they				without pay; home, often property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

No, they must work at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 work	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 work	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	must	they					at home	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at home=Theme

Option 4

Yes, they get double pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pay	amod
6	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	they	double pay					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pay=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/t5/