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title: "she's on the bench again, no client since May" — what is true of her? — Soft words for hard things: work, firi… · tree and pragmatics
description: "she's on the bench again, no client since May" — what is true of her? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…

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"she's on the bench again, no client since May" — what is true of her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she, bench · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bench

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t11:1
# text = "she's on the bench again, no client since May" — what is true of her?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	client	client	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | she |  |  | the bench | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the bench |  |  |  |  | of her *= she*; true *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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She plays football

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t11:o1:1
# text = She plays football
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | She | football |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She is a judge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t11:o2:1
# text = She is a judge
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She is sitting in a park

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t11:o3:1
# text = She is sitting in a park
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present · progressive | She |  |  | a park |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in park=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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She has no project to work on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t11:o4:1
# text = She has no project to work on
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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | She | no project |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Patient |
| 2 | **work on** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | no project *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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