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Test 13 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police

Old film: "Ten years up the river, that's what you'll get!" What is the threat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, you, threat · What happens: be, get

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 27 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» 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: Old film: "Ten years up the river, that's what you'll get!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 film	amod
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct
5	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 film	appos
7	up	up	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 what	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 film	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 what	acl:relcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 film	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 film	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that						tree rules
2	get in a quote	future	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 the threat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 threat	det
4	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ten years living on a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 living	obl:unmarked
3	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 boat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boat	det
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund				a boat	year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boat=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ten years in prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 prison	case
4	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Ten years of rowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rowing	case
4	rowing	rowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Ten years of fishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fishing	case
4	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	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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