--- title: Advert: "Flexible hours! Work when it suits you!" What should a care… — Soft words for hard things: work, firi… · tree and pragmatics description: Advert: "Flexible hours! Work when it suits you!" What should a careful worker check? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 21 «Soft words for hard things: 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 option; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/t11/) [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: work, firi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy Advert: "Flexible hours! Work when it suits you!" What should a careful worker check? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** suit · **To what, where:** you This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 21 «Soft words for hard things: 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/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Advert: "Flexible hours! ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:21-work-firing-and-the-economy:t11:1 # text = Advert: "Flexible hours! 1 Advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Flexible flexible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* Work when it suits you!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:21-work-firing-and-the-economy:t11:2 # text = Work when it suits you!" 1 Work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 suits suit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suit** | present | it | you | | | | | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* What should a careful worker check? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:21-work-firing-and-the-economy:t11:3 # text = What should a careful worker check? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 1 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Whether the hours are too short to count ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:21-work-firing-and-the-economy:t11:o1:1 # text = Whether the hours are too short to count 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the hours | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **count** | to-infinitive | the hours *not said here* | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} Whether the work involves yoga ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:21-work-firing-and-the-economy:t11:o2:1 # text = Whether the work involves yoga 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 involves involve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 yoga yoga NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **involve** | present | the work | yoga | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoga=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Whether any hours or pay are guaranteed ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:21-work-firing-and-the-economy:t11:o3:1 # text = Whether any hours or pay are guaranteed 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 guaranteed guarantee VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guarantee** | present · passive | | any hours or pay | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Whether the office has a gym ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:21-work-firing-and-the-economy:t11:o4:1 # text = Whether the office has a gym 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gym gym NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the office | a gym | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gym=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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