--- title: Gran reads a letter: "Your account is three months in arrears." What… — Soft words for hard things: money and… · tree and pragmatics description: Gran reads a letter: "Your account is three months in arrears." What does it mean? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: money and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi… Gran reads a letter: "Your account is three months in arrears." What does it mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gran, account, Your · **What happens:** read, be, account, mean · **To what, where:** letter, three months, arrears This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» 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/20-debt-and-jobs/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Gran reads a letter: "Your account is three months in arrears." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t7:1 # text = Gran reads a letter: "Your account is three months in arrears." 1 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 arrears arrear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | Gran | a letter | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Your account | three months | | arrears | | | tree rules | | 3 | **account** *in a quote* | | Your | | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does it mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t7:2 # text = What does it mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | account | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The account is closed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t7:o1:1 # text = The account is closed 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | present · passive | | the account | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} She is behind on payments ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t7:o2:1 # text = She is behind on payments 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 behind behind ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 payments payment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | She | | | payments | | behind *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} She is three months ahead ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t7:o3:1 # text = She is three months ahead 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | She | three months | | | | ahead *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} She has a bonus ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t7:o4:1 # text = She has a bonus 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bonus bonus NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | She | a bonus | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bonus=Patient | **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. 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