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title: "Your nan's on a fixed income, so don't expect a big present, ok?" W… — Soft words for hard things: money and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Your nan's on a fixed income, so don't expect a big present, ok?" Why no big present? Test 8 · ★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

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"Your nan's on a fixed income, so don't expect a big present, ok?" Why no big present?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nan · **What happens:** fix, not expect · **To what, where:** big present

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Your nan's on a fixed income, so don't expect a big present, ok?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t8:1
# text = "Your nan's on a fixed income, so don't expect a big present, ok?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **expect** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Your nan on a fixed income | a big present |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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:* Why no big present?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t8:2
# text = Why no big present?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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Nan does not like presents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t8:o1:1
# text = Nan does not like presents
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Nan | presents |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot present=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nan has little money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t8:o2:1
# text = Nan has little money
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
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 | Nan | little money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nan is busy fixing things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t8:o3:1
# text = Nan is busy fixing things
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nan |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | gerund | Nan *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nan already bought one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t8:o4:1
# text = Nan already bought one
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | Nan | one |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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