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Test 1 · ★ · Unemployment: when jobs are lost

Your mate says, "People who lose their jobs are just lazy, innit." What's the fairer answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, People, fairer answer · What happens: say, lose, be, innit, job · To what, where: jobs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money 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: Your mate says, "People who lose their jobs are just lazy, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lazy	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lazy	punct
6	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lazy	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lose	nsubj
8	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 People	acl:relcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 jobs	nmod:poss
10	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	obj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lazy	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 lazy	advmod
13	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 lazy	discourse
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lazy	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lose in a quote	present	People	People's jobs					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	present	People					lazy property	tree rules
4	innit in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
5	job in a quote		People						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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's the fairer answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Losing a job means you did something illegal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 job	det
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Losing	obj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 did	obj
8	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		a job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	mean	present	Losing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past	you	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

Option 2

Jobs are only lost by people who are rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 rich	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rich	cop
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive	people	Jobs					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	is	present	people					rich property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most job losses come from changes they can't control, like a factory closing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 losses	amod
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losses	compound
3	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 changes	case
6	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 control	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 control	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 control	advmod
10	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 changes	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 closing	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 closing	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 closing	det
14	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 closing	compound
15	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Most job losses			changes		like a factory closing	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from change=Initial_Location
2	not control	can	losses = loss	changes not said here					vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme

Option 4

He's right, only lazy people ever lose jobs

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	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lose	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lose	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 lose	advmod
9	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
10	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	lose	present	lazy people	jobs			ever		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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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