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description: Gossip: "Old Mrs Pike's in reduced circumstances since her husband went, poor dear." What happened to Mrs Pike? Test 3 · ★ 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 ea
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# Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

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Gossip: "Old Mrs Pike's in reduced circumstances since her husband went, poor dear." What happened to Mrs Pike?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** reduce, go, happen · **To what, where:** Mrs Pike

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gossip: "Old Mrs Pike's in reduced circumstances since her husband went, poor dear."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t3:1
# text = Gossip: "Old Mrs Pike's in reduced circumstances since her husband went, poor dear."
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
11	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Pike's husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What happened to Mrs Pike?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t3:2
# text = What happened to Mrs Pike?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  | Mrs Pike |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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She has become very ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t3:o1:1
# text = She has become very ill
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | She |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She moved to a small flat by choice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t3:o2:1
# text = She moved to a small flat by choice
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	flat	flat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | She |  |  | a small flat |  | by choice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to flat=Source by choice=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She won the lottery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t3:o3:1
# text = She won the lottery
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lottery	lottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | She | the lottery |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lottery=Eventuality |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She is poorer than before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t3:o4:1
# text = She is poorer than before
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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