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title: A TV ad: "Sunny Pines – a friendly retirement community." Who will l… — Soft words for hard things: age and lo… · tree and pragmatics
description: A TV ad: "Sunny Pines – a friendly retirement community." Who will live there? Test 11 of lesson 9 «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was r
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# Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight

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A TV ad: "Sunny Pines – a friendly retirement community." Who will live there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** live

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This is test 11 of lesson 9 «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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/9-age-looks-and-size/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A TV ad: "Sunny Pines – a friendly retirement community."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t11:1
# text = A TV ad: "Sunny Pines – a friendly retirement community."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Pines	Pine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 2:* Who will live there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t11:2
# text = Who will live there?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | future |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Old people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t11:o1:1
# text = Old people
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Young families

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t11:o2:1
# text = Young families
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Holidaying workers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t11:o3:1
# text = Holidaying workers
1	Holidaying	holiday	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **holiday** | gerund |  | workers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Students

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:9-age-looks-and-size:t11:o4:1
# text = Students
1	Students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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