Test 9 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…
"Mate, I'm not unemployed, I'm in transition, ok?" What is he really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, he · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: transition
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: "Mate, I'm not unemployed, I'm in transition, ok?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 unemployed | punct |
| 2 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unemployed | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mate | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 unemployed | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unemployed | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 unemployed | advmod |
| 7 | unemployed | unemployed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 transition | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 transition | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 transition | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 transition | case |
| 12 | transition | transition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unemployed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ok | punct |
| 14 | ok | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 transition | amod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 unemployed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 unemployed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | I | Mate vocative; unemployed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | transition | 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: What is he really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Moving house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
Option 2
On a bus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 bus | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bus | det |
| 3 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Out of work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 3 work | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 work | case |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Learning a language
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 language | det |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Learning | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | a language | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic |
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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