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Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…

Lily says: "a pre-owned car means nobody has owned it yet." Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, pre-owned car · What happens: say, mean, own, be · To what, where: nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Lily says: "a pre-owned car means nobody has owned it yet."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	pre-owned	pre-owned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 car	amod
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 owned	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 owned	aux
11	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 means	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 owned	obj
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 owned	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lily						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean in a quote	present	a pre-owned car						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	own in a quote	present · perfect · passive		nobody			yet		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: Is she right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lily					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is still in the factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 factory	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 factory	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 factory	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 factory	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 factory	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 factory	det
8	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			the factory	still		tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it is brand new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 new	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 new	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 new	cop
5	brand	brand	ADV	_	6 new	advmod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					brand, new property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it has had an owner before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owner	det
7	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	5 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	it	a owner				before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Patient

Option 4

No, it has never been driven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 driven	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 driven	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 driven	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 driven	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 driven	aux:pass
7	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drive	present · perfect · passive		it					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory

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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