--- title: Old film: "Ten years up the river, that's what you'll get!" What is… — Soft words for hard things: crime, pri… · tree and pragmatics description: Old film: "Ten years up the river, that's what you'll get!" What is the threat? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 27 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/t13/) [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: crime, pri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police Old film: "Ten years up the river, that's what you'll get!" What is the threat? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** that, you, threat · **What happens:** be, get This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 27 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» 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/27-crime-prison-and-police/#t13). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Old film: "Ten years up the river, that's what you'll get!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t13:1 # text = Old film: "Ten years up the river, that's what you'll get!" 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 7 up up ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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 is the threat? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t13:2 # text = What is the threat? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 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 threat | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Ten years living on a boat ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t13:o1:1 # text = Ten years living on a boat 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | | | | a boat | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boat=Location | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Ten years in prison ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t13:o2:1 # text = Ten years in prison 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten years of rowing ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t13:o3:1 # text = Ten years of rowing 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 rowing rowing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Ten years of fishing ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t13:o4:1 # text = Ten years of fishing 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 fishing fishing 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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