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title: House advert: "Full of character, needs some TLC." What should a buy… — Soft words for hard things: work, firi… · tree and pragmatics
description: House advert: "Full of character, needs some TLC." What should a buyer expect? Test 8 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 8 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…

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House advert: "Full of character, needs some TLC." What should a buyer expect?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** House advert, buyer · **What happens:** need, expect · **To what, where:** TLC

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* House advert: "Full of character, needs some TLC."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t8:1
# text = House advert: "Full of character, needs some TLC."
1	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	TLC	tlc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** *in a quote* | present | House advert | some TLC |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tlc=Theme |

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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 should a buyer expect?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t8:2
# text = What should a buyer expect?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	buyer	buyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | should | a buyer |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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An old house needing repairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t8:o1:1
# text = An old house needing repairs
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	needing	need	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	repairs	repair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | gerund | a old house *not said here* | repairs |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A brand new house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t8:o2:1
# text = A brand new house
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	brand	brand	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A house full of toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t8:o3:1
# text = A house full of toys
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A house with famous owners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t8:o4:1
# text = A house with famous owners
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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