Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…
House advert: "Full of character, needs some TLC." What should a buyer expect?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: House advert, buyer · What happens: need, expect · To what, where: TLC
This is test 8 · ★ 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: House advert: "Full of character, needs some TLC."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advert | compound |
| 2 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Full | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Full | punct |
| 5 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 advert | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 character | case |
| 7 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Full | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 advert | punct |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 TLC | det |
| 11 | TLC | tlc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 needs | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 needs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | House advert | some TLC | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tlc=Theme |
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 should a buyer expect?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 expect | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 buyer | det |
| 4 | buyer | buyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | should | a buyer | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An old house needing repairs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | needing | need | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 house | acl |
| 5 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 needing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | gerund | a old house not said here | repairs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=Theme |
Option 2
A brand new house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 2 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 3 new | advmod |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A house full of toys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 house | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 toys | case |
| 5 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A house with famous owners
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 owners | case |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 owners | amod |
| 5 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 house | nmod |
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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