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Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy

"Tom was relieved of his duties after the audit." What happened to Tom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: Tom

This is test 9 · ★ 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: "Tom was relieved of his duties after the audit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 relieved	punct
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 relieved	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 relieved	cop
4	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 duties	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 duties	nmod:poss
7	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 relieved	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 audit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 audit	det
10	audit	audit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 duties	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 relieved	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 relieved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Tom					of Tom's duties after the audit; relieved property	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 happened to Tom?

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	to	to	ADP	_	4 Tom	case
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He was given a medal

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 medal	det
5	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		He					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient medal=Theme

Option 2

He got a well-earned holiday

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 holiday	det
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 earned	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 holiday	amod
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	a earned holiday					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer holiday=Stimulus
2	earn	participle						well property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

His work became lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 work	nmod:poss
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	His work					light property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	work		His = he						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He lost his job

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 job	nmod:poss
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

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

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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