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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

Old crime film: "Cross the boss and you'll sleep with the fishes." What is the threat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, threat · What happens: cross, sleep, be · To what, where: boss

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Old crime film: "Cross the boss and you'll sleep with the fishes."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 film	amod
2	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 film	compound
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Cross	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Cross	punct
6	Cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 film	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boss	det
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Cross	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sleep	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	aux
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Cross	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 fishes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fishes	det
15	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sleep	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross in a quote	infinitive		the boss					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Patient
2	sleep in a quote	future	you					with the fishes	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

You will be murdered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 murdered	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 murdered	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 murdered	aux:pass
4	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	murder	future · passive		You					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

You will lose your job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 job	nmod:poss
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	future	You	your job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	job		your						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

You will sleep on a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	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 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	future	You			a boat			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

You will be sent fishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	future · passive		You					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination fishing=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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