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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy

Advert: "Flexible hours! Work when it suits you!" What should a careful worker check?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: suit · To what, where: you

This is test 11 · ★ 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: Advert: "Flexible hours!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 hours	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hours	punct
4	Flexible	flexible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hours	amod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Advert	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Advert	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Work when it suits you!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suits	compound
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 suits	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 suits	nsubj
4	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 suits	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 suits	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 suits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suit	present	it	you					tree rules

Sentence 3: What should a careful worker check?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 check	det
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 check	amod
5	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 check	compound
6	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whether the hours are too short to count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 short	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hours	det
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 short	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 count	mark
8	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 short	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hours					short property	tree rules
2	count	to-infinitive	the hours not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Whether the work involves yoga

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 involves	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 work	det
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 involves	nsubj
4	involves	involve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yoga	yoga	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 involves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	involve	present	the work	yoga					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoga=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Whether any hours or pay are guaranteed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 guaranteed	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 hours	det
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 guaranteed	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 pay	cc
5	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hours	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 guaranteed	aux:pass
7	guaranteed	guarantee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guarantee	present · passive		any hours or pay					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Whether the office has a gym

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 office	det
3	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gym	det
6	gym	gym	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the office	a gym					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gym=Patient

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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