Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…

"crap, told the boss his plan was rubbish in front of everyone. career-limiting move, eh" — what does the speaker fear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crap, plan · What happens: tell, be, do, plan · To what, where: boss, rubbish, front, speaker fear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	2 crap	punct
2	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boss	det
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plan	nmod:poss
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbish	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rubbish	cop
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbish	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 everyone	case
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 front	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 move	punct
16	career-limiting	career-limiting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 move	amod
17	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eh	punct
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 move	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 move	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 does	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 does	nsubj
23	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fear	det
25	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fear	compound
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 does	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	crap		the boss		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boss=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	past	crap's plan	rubbish		front of everyone	tree rules
3	do	present		the speaker fear			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality
4	plan in a quote		crap				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Losing the job or a promotion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 job	det
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Losing	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 promotion	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 promotion	det
6	promotion	promotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 job	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		the job or a promotion					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

Option 2

Getting a medal for honesty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 medal	det
3	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 honesty	case
5	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		a medal				for honesty	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent medal=Theme for honesty=Source

Option 3

Moving to a smaller desk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 desk	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 desk	det
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 desk	amod
5	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund				a smaller desk			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to desk=Trajectory

Option 4

Being made the boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	aux:pass
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boss	det
4	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund · passive		the boss					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: boss=Product

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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