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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

"Cheap trainers, mate, don't ask — they fell off the back of a lorry." What is the seller hinting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cheap trainers, trainers, seller · What happens: not ask, fall off, be, hint · To what, where: back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 28 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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: "Cheap trainers, mate, don't ask — they fell off the back of a lorry."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 trainers	punct
2	Cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trainers	amod
3	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ask	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trainers	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 trainers	punct
7	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 ask	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ask	advmod
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	ccomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 back	det
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 lorry	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lorry	det
18	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 back	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Cheap trainers and mate						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall off in a quote	past	trainers = trainer	the back of a lorry					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient back=Extent

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 seller hinting?

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 seller	det
4	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	hinting	hint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 seller	acl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the seller						tree rules
2	hint speech: other	gerund	the seller not said here						vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The trainers are made of rubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trainers	det
2	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rubber	case
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the trainers				of rubber	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

The trainers came by post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trainers	det
2	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 post	case
5	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The trainers are stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trainers	det
2	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stolen	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux:pass
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present · passive		the trainers					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The trainers are damaged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trainers	det
2	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 damaged	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 damaged	aux:pass
4	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	present · passive		the trainers					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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