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title: "Mate, I'm not unemployed, I'm in transition, ok?" What is he really? — Soft words for hard things: money and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mate, I'm not unemployed, I'm in transition, ok?" What is he really? Test 9 · ★★ 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 of each optio
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, fi…

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"Mate, I'm not unemployed, I'm in transition, ok?" What is he really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, he · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** transition

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Mate, I'm not unemployed, I'm in transition, ok?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t9:1
# text = "Mate, I'm not unemployed, I'm in transition, ok?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	unemployed	unemployed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative*; unemployed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | transition |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is he really?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t9:2
# text = What is he really?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Moving house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t9:o1:1
# text = Moving house
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  | house |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On a bus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t9:o2:1
# text = On a bus
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Out of work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t9:o3:1
# text = Out of work
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Learning a language

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:20-debt-and-jobs:t9:o4:1
# text = Learning a language
1	Learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | gerund |  | a language |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic |

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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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