--- title: The boss announces "efficiency gains" next year. What should the sta… — Soft words for hard things: work, firi… · tree and pragmatics description: The boss announces "efficiency gains" next year. What should the staff worry about? Test 9 · ★ 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 questi --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a… The boss announces "efficiency gains" next year. What should the staff worry about? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boss, staff · **What happens:** announce, worry · **To what, where:** efficiency gains This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* The boss announces "efficiency gains" next year. ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t9:1 # text = The boss announces "efficiency gains" next year. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 announces announce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 efficiency efficiency NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 gains gain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | present | the boss | efficiency gains | | | year | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gain=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What should the staff worry about? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t9:2 # text = What should the staff worry about? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 1 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 staff staff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 worry worry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **worry** | present | the staff | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Faster lifts ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t9:o1:1 # text = Faster lifts 1 Faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 lifts lift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} New chairs ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t9:o2:1 # text = New chairs 1 New new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Some jobs may be cut ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t9:o3:1 # text = Some jobs may be cut 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | may · passive | | some jobs | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ### Option 4 {#o4} Free fruit in the kitchen ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents:t9:o4:1 # text = Free fruit in the kitchen 1 Free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` 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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