--- title: "the bank still runs on some legacy system from the 80s, total pain"… — Soft words for hard things: business a… · tree and pragmatics description: "the bank still runs on some legacy system from the 80s, total pain" — what does the bank use? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/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: business a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and p… "the bank still runs on some legacy system from the 80s, total pain" — what does the bank use? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bank · **What happens:** run, use · **To what, where:** legacy system This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 23 «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t11:1 # text = "the bank still runs on some legacy system from the 80s, total pain" — what does the bank use? 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 8 legacy legacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 80s 80 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 obj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** *in a quote* | present | the bank | | | some legacy system from the 80s | still | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on system=Trajectory | | 2 | **use** | present · do-support | the bank | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | 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 {#o1} Paper only ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t11:o1:1 # text = Paper only 1 Paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Old, outdated software ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t11:o2:1 # text = Old, outdated software 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 outdated outdated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 software software NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Brand new software ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t11:o3:1 # text = Brand new software 1 Brand brand ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 software software NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Software from a famous will ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:23-fees-bugs-and-spin:t11:o4:1 # text = Software from a famous will 1 Software software NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 nmod _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 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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