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title: "Can't come to the cinema, I'm proper hard up mate" — why can't he c… — Soft words for hard things: money and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Can't come to the cinema, I'm proper hard up mate" — why can't he come? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 19 «Soft words for hard things: 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

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"Can't come to the cinema, I'm proper hard up mate" — why can't he come?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, he · **What happens:** not come, be · **To what, where:** cinema

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 19 «Soft words for hard things: 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/19-money-and-poverty/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t1:1
# text = "Can't come to the cinema, I'm proper hard up mate" — why can't he come?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can |  |  |  | the cinema |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cinema=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | up mate; hard, properly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **come** | can | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He is ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t1:o1:1
# text = He is ill
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He is grounded

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t1:o2:1
# text = He is grounded
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	grounded	ground	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ground** | present · passive |  | He |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He is too tall for the seats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t1:o3:1
# text = He is too tall for the seats
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | for the seats; tall *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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He has no money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t1:o4:1
# text = He has no money
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | He | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |

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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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