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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…

A letter from your phone company: "From June there will be a small price adjustment." What is going to happen?

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

This is test 3 · ★ 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 letter from your phone company: "From June there will be a small price adjustment."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 adjustment	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 company	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 company	nmod:poss
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 company	compound
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 be	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 be	punct
9	From	from	ADP	_	10 June	case
10	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 be	obl
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 be	expl
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 adjustment	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 adjustment	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 adjustment	amod
16	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 adjustment	compound
17	adjustment	adjustment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 adjustment	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 adjustment	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive	a letter from your phone company	a small price adjustment					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 is going to happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 happen	mark
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive							vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	to-infinitive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing will change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	future	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Your phone will be fixed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 phone	nmod:poss
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fixed	nsubj:pass
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fixed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fixed	aux:pass
5	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	future · passive		Your phone					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

Option 3

You will pay less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	future	You	less					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You will pay more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	future	You	more					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset

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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