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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy

News: "The factory announced a reduction in force affecting 400 staff." What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: News, reduction · What happens: announce, affect, happen · To what, where: reduction, force, 400 staff

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 21 «Soft words for hard things: 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: News: "The factory announced a reduction in force affecting 400 staff."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 announced	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 News	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 announced	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 factory	det
5	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 announced	nsubj
6	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reduction	det
8	reduction	reduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 announced	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 force	case
10	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reduction	nmod
11	affecting	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 reduction	acl
12	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 staff	nummod
13	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 affecting	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 announced	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 announced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	announce speech: other in a quote	past	News	a reduction		force			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reduction=Theme
2	affect in a quote	gerund	a reduction not said here	400 staff					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus staff=Experiencer

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

400 new soldiers joined the army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 soldiers	nummod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soldiers	amod
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 joined	nsubj
4	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 army	det
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	400 new soldiers	the army					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About 400 workers lost their jobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 400	advmod
2	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 workers	nummod
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 jobs	nmod:poss
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	400 workers	workers's jobs					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	job		workers = worker						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

400 workers moved to another office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 workers	nummod
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 office	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 office	det
6	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	400 workers			another office			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to office=Trajectory

Option 4

400 workers got a pay rise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 workers	nummod
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	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 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	400 workers	a pay rise					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rise=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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