--- title: An agency sign: "Mature actors wanted." Whom do they want? — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics description: An agency sign: "Mature actors wanted." Whom do they want? 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Whom do they want? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mature actors, actors · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** agency sign This is test 11 of lesson 8 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» 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/8-toilets-and-getting-older/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* An agency sign: "Mature actors wanted." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t11:1 # text = An agency sign: "Mature actors wanted." 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 agency agency NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Mature mature ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | past | Mature actors | a agency sign *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sign=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:* Whom do they want? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t11:2 # text = Whom do they want? 1 Whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 obj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present · do-support | actors *= actor* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Very serious actors ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t11:o1:1 # text = Very serious actors 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Well-behaved actors ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t11:o2:1 # text = Well-behaved actors 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 behaved behave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behave** | participle | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Older actors ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t11:o3:1 # text = Older actors 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Star actors ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t11:o4:1 # text = Star actors 1 Star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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