--- title: A man jokes, "I'm not poor, I'm financially challenged!" What is he? — Soft words for hard things: animals an… · tree and pragmatics description: A man jokes, "I'm not poor, I'm financially challenged!" What is he? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: animals an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and… A man jokes, "I'm not poor, I'm financially challenged!" What is he? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** joke, not be, challenge, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A man jokes, "I'm not poor, I'm financially challenged!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t12:1 # text = A man jokes, "I'm not poor, I'm financially challenged!" 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 financially financially ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 challenged challenge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | a man | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | a man *= man* | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **challenge** *in a quote* | present · passive | a man *= man* | | | | | financially *property* | tree rules | 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 he? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t12:2 # text = What is he? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | man | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Rich ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t12:o1:1 # text = Rich 1 Rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Good with money ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t12:o2:1 # text = Good with money 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A banker ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t12:o3:1 # text = A banker 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 banker banker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Poor ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t12:o4:1 # text = Poor 1 Poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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