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title: "Uncle Dave is so careful with money he reuses tea bags lol" — what… — Soft words for hard things: money and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Uncle Dave is so careful with money he reuses tea bags lol" — what is Uncle Dave? Test 4 · ★ 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 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

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"Uncle Dave is so careful with money he reuses tea bags lol" — what is Uncle Dave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Uncle Dave, Dave · **What happens:** be, reuse · **To what, where:** tea bags, Uncle Dave

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t4:1
# text = "Uncle Dave is so careful with money he reuses tea bags lol" — what is Uncle Dave?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Dave	Dave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reuses	reuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Dave	Dave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Dave |  |  |  |  | with money; careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reuse** *in a quote* | present | Dave | tea bags |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Asset |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | Uncle Dave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Generous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t4:o1:1
# text = Generous
1	Generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Clumsy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t4:o2:1
# text = Clumsy
1	Clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Very rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t4:o3:1
# text = Very rich
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Stingy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t4:o4:1
# text = Stingy
1	Stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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