Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…
News: "The number of jobseekers rose by 3,000 last month." What happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: News · What happens: rise, happen
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 number of jobseekers rose by 3,000 last month."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 number | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 number | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 News | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jobseekers | case |
| 7 | jobseekers | jobseeker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 month | case |
| 10 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 month | nummod |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 month | amod |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise in a quote | past | News and the number of jobseekers | month | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
More companies were hiring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 companies | amod |
| 2 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hiring | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hiring | aux |
| 4 | hiring | hire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past · progressive | More companies | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
More people were unemployed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 unemployed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unemployed | cop |
| 4 | unemployed | unemployed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | More people | unemployed property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
More people found jobs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 jobs | amod |
| 4 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
More people retired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | participle | More people not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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