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Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police

Mate: "lol he got a five-finger discount on them sweets." What did he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: get, do · To what, where: discount sweets

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Mate: "lol he got a five-finger discount on them sweets."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 discount	det
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 finger	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 five	punct
10	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 discount	compound
11	discount	discount	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sweets	compound
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 discount	nmod
14	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	he	discount sweets					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus

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 did he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He paid half price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 price	amod
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	He	half price					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset

Option 2

He got a coupon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coupon	det
4	coupon	coupon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	a coupon					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coupon=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He stole the sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sweets	det
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	the sweets					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sweet=Theme

Option 4

He bought five sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sweets	nummod
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	He	five sweets					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme

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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