Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…
A charity shop sign: "Pre-loved toys, all £1." What are the toys?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toys · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ 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: A charity shop sign: "Pre-loved toys, all £1."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 2 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shop | compound |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | compound |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 toys | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 toys | punct |
| 7 | Pre-loved | pre-loved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 toys | amod |
| 8 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sign | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 £ | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 £ | det |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 8 toys | appos |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 £ | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 toys | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What are the toys?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 toys | det |
| 4 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the toys | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Brand new
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brand | brand | ADV | _ | 2 new | advmod |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Second-hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 hand | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Second | punct |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Broken ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ones | amod |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Handmade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Handmade | Handmade | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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