Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p…
"the bank still runs on some legacy system from the 80s, total pain" — what does the bank use?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bank · What happens: run, use · To what, where: legacy system
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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 | _ | 5 runs | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bank | det |
| 3 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 runs | advmod |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 system | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 system | det |
| 8 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 system | compound |
| 9 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 80s | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 80s | det |
| 12 | 80s | 80 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 system | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pain | punct |
| 14 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pain | amod |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 80s | appos |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pain | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 use | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 use | obj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 use | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bank | det |
| 21 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | nsubj |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 runs | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 runs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | present | the bank | some legacy system from the 80s | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on system=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | use | present · do-support | the bank | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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
Paper only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Paper | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Old, outdated software
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 software | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Old | punct |
| 3 | outdated | outdated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 software | amod |
| 4 | software | software | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Brand new software
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brand | brand | ADV | _ | 2 new | advmod |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 software | amod |
| 3 | software | software | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Software from a famous will
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software | software | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 will | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 famous | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 famous | det |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Software | nmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
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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