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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…

Gran says: "I'm not a housewife, I'm a domestic engineer!" What is she doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran · What happens: say, not be, be, do · To what, where: housewife, domestic engineer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Gran says: "I'm not a housewife, I'm a domestic engineer!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 housewife	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 housewife	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 housewife	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 housewife	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 housewife	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 housewife	det
9	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 engineer	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 engineer	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 engineer	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 engineer	det
14	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 engineer	amod
15	engineer	engineer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 housewife	appos
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 engineer	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 engineer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Gran						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	Gran	a housewife					tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	Gran	a domestic engineer					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 she doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	Gran						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Saying she builds houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 builds	csubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Saying	obj
3	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 builds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		she					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	build	present	Saying	houses					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Joking about the work of running a home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 work	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 work	det
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Joking	obl
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 running	mark
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 work	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 home	det
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 running	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	gerund						about the work	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about work=Topic
2	run	gerund	the work not said here	a home					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory

Option 3

Saying she works at the power plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 works	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 plant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plant	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plant	compound
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	work	present						at the power plant	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at plant=Theme

Option 4

Saying she fixes cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fixes	csubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Saying	obj
3	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fixes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		she					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	fix	present	Saying	cars					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent car=Patient

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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