--- title: "Her uncle's been a guest of His Majesty since last spring," laughs… — Soft words for hard things: crime, pri… · tree and pragmatics description: "Her uncle's been a guest of His Majesty since last spring," laughs a neighbour. Where is the uncle? Test 9 · ★ 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 ea --- [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/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: crime, pri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police "Her uncle's been a guest of His Majesty since last spring," laughs a neighbour. Where is the uncle? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** uncle, guest · **What happens:** be, laugh · **To what, where:** guest, neighbour This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "Her uncle's been a guest of His Majesty since last spring," laughs a neighbour. ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t9:1 # text = "Her uncle's been a guest of His Majesty since last spring," laughs a neighbour. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 since since ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 16 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Her uncle | a guest | | | spring | of guest's Majesty | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | present | a guest | a neighbour | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=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:* Where is the uncle? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t9:2 # text = Where is the uncle? 1 Where where ADV WRB 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 uncle uncle 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** | present | the uncle | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} At sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t9:o1:1 # text = At sea 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} In prison ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t9:o2:1 # text = In prison 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} At the King's palace ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t9:o3:1 # text = At the King's palace 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} In the army ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:27-crime-prison-and-police:t9:o4:1 # text = In the army 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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