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

"she's on the bench again, no client since May" — what is true of her?

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

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bench	punct
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bench	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bench	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bench	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bench	det
6	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 bench	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 client	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 client	det
10	client	client	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bench	appos
11	since	since	ADP	_	12 May	case
12	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 client	nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 client	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bench	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 true	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bench	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	she			the bench	again		tree rules
2	is	present	the bench					of her = she; true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She plays football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plays	nsubj
2	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	She	football					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme

Option 2

She is a judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 judge	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 judge	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 judge	det
4	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a judge					tree rules

Option 3

She is sitting in a park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sitting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 park	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 park	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	She			a park			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in park=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She has no project to work on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 project	det
4	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 project	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	no project					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Patient
2	work on	to-infinitive	She not said here	no project not said here					vn employment-95.3 «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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