--- title: A charity shop sign: "Pre-loved toys, all £1." What are the toys? — Soft words for hard things: work, firi… · tree and pragmatics description: A charity shop sign: "Pre-loved toys, all £1." What are the toys? Test 12 · ★ 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 each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/t12/) [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/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a… A charity shop sign: "Pre-loved toys, all £1." What are the toys? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toys · **What happens:** be This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A charity shop sign: "Pre-loved toys, all £1." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t12:1 # text = A charity shop sign: "Pre-loved toys, all £1." 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Pre-loved pre-loved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 £ £ SYM $ _ 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* What are the toys? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t12:2 # text = What are the toys? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the toys | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Brand new ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t12:o1:1 # text = Brand new 1 Brand brand ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Second-hand ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t12:o2:1 # text = Second-hand 1 Second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Broken ones ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t12:o3:1 # text = Broken ones 1 Broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Handmade ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t12:o4:1 # text = Handmade 1 Handmade Handmade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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