--- title: Shop owner: "Shrinkage cost us two thousand pounds this year." What… — Soft words for hard things: crime, pri… · tree and pragmatics description: Shop owner: "Shrinkage cost us two thousand pounds this year." What happened? Test 3 · ★ 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 choic --- [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/t3/) [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/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police Shop owner: "Shrinkage cost us two thousand pounds this year." What happened? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Shrinkage · **What happens:** cost, happen · **To what, where:** thousand pounds, us This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Shop owner: "Shrinkage cost us two thousand pounds this year." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t3:1 # text = Shop owner: "Shrinkage cost us two thousand pounds this year." 1 Shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Shrinkage shrinkage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 compound _ _ 9 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** *in a quote* | past | Shrinkage | thousand pounds | us | | year | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme we=Beneficiary pound=Value | 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 happened? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t3:2 # text = What happened? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Goods worth that much were stolen ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t3:o1:1 # text = Goods worth that much were stolen 1 Goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 nsubj _ _ 2 worth worth VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **worth** | present | Goods | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **steal** | past · passive | | much | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} The shop building got smaller ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t3:o2:1 # text = The shop building got smaller 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | the shop building | | | | | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} Clothes shrank in the wash ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t3:o3:1 # text = Clothes shrank in the wash 1 Clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | past | Clothes | | | the wash | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Prices dropped by that much ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t3:o4:1 # text = Prices dropped by that much 1 Prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | participle | Prices | | | | | by that much | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by much=Trajectory | **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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