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Test 6 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

A press release: "Our director leaves to spend more time with family." Gossip at the office says what probably happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: director, press release, Gossip · What happens: leave, spend, say, happen · To what, where: press release · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 press release: "Our director leaves to spend more time with family."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 release	det
2	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 release	compound
3	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct
6	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 director	nmod:poss
7	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	nsubj
8	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 release	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spend	mark
10	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leaves	xcomp
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spend	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 family	case
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spend	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	present	Our director	a press release not said here					tree rules
2	spend in a quote	to-infinitive	a press release not said here				time	with family	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Gossip at the office says what probably happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 office	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 office	det
4	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gossip	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
7	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 happened	advmod
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Gossip at the office						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He had triplets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	triplets	triplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	triplets					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triplet=Patient

Option 2

He moved next door to family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 family	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	He	next door		family			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent door=Theme to family=Trajectory

Option 3

He won the lottery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lottery	det
4	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	He	the lottery					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lottery=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was forced out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 forced	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force out	past · passive		He					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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