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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy

The company letter says: "We are offering early retirement to staff over 55." What is it really trying to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: company letter, We, retirement · What happens: say, offer, try, do · To what, where: early retirement, 55 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: The company letter says: "We are offering early retirement to staff over 55."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 letter	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 letter	compound
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 offering	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 offering	punct
7	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 offering	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 offering	aux
9	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 says	ccomp
10	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 retirement	amod
11	retirement	retirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 offering	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 staff	case
13	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 offering	obl
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 55	case
15	55	55	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 offering	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 offering	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 offering	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the company letter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	offer in a quote	present · progressive	We	early retirement		55		to staff goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent retirement=Theme to staff=Goal

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 it really trying to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 trying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trying	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trying	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 trying	advmod
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	retirement						tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	retirement not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Get older workers to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 workers	amod
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Get	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	older workers					tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive	older workers not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Give older workers a pay rise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 workers	amod
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
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	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	older workers					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient rise=Theme

Option 3

Give older workers a party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 workers	amod
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 party	det
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	older workers					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient party=Theme

Option 4

Let older workers come in earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 workers	amod
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	ccomp
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	come in	present	older workers					early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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