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title: A charity says it helps "underprivileged kids" go to summer camp. Wh… — Soft words for hard things: animals an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A charity says it helps "underprivileged kids" go to summer camp. Which children? Test 8 · ★ 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

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A charity says it helps "underprivileged kids" go to summer camp. Which children?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** charity, underprivileged kids · **What happens:** say, help, go · **To what, where:** summer camp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A charity says it helps "underprivileged kids" go to summer camp.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t8:1
# text = A charity says it helps "underprivileged kids" go to summer camp.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	underprivileged	underprivileged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a charity |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | present | charity |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | underprivileged kids |  |  | summer camp |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which children?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t8:2
# text = Which children?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Children who are naughty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t8:o1:1
# text = Children who are naughty
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Children who are very clever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t8:o2:1
# text = Children who are very clever
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Poor children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t8:o3:1
# text = Poor children
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children with no pets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t8:o4:1
# text = Children with no pets
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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