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title: A charity sign: "Your coins help rough sleepers stay warm tonight."… — Soft words for hard things: money and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A charity sign: "Your coins help rough sleepers stay warm tonight." Who is helped? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty

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A charity sign: "Your coins help rough sleepers stay warm tonight." Who is helped?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** coins, charity sign, Your · **What happens:** help, stay, coin · **To what, where:** rough sleepers

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A charity sign: "Your coins help rough sleepers stay warm tonight."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t9:1
# text = A charity sign: "Your coins help rough sleepers stay warm tonight."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
9	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** *in a quote* | present | Your coins | rough sleepers |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeper=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | present | a charity sign |  |  |  | tonight |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **coin** *in a quote* |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:* Who is helped?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t9:2
# text = Who is helped?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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People who sleep badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t9:o1:1
# text = People who sleep badly
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | People |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Homeless people sleeping outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t9:o2:1
# text = Homeless people sleeping outside
1	Homeless	homeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | gerund | Homeless people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Campers in the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t9:o3:1
# text = Campers in the hills
1	Campers	camper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children having a sleepover

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:19-money-and-poverty:t9:o4:1
# text = Children having a sleepover
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sleepover	sleepover	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** | gerund | Children *not said here* | a sleepover |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleepover=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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