Test 4 · Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback
In a cartoon, a teacher's red marks turn into monsters that chase a boy. What are marks really for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: red marks, monsters, teacher · What happens: turn, chase, mark, be · To what, where: cartoon, boy, marks
This is test 4 of lesson 38 «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of the arts 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.
The question
Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a teacher's red marks turn into monsters that chase a boy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 teacher | case |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 marks | amod |
| 9 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 monsters | case |
| 12 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 chase | nsubj |
| 14 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 monsters | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chase | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | a teacher's red marks | a cartoon | into monsters | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | chase | present | monsters | a boy | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mark | a teacher | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 are marks really for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marks | cop |
| 3 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 for | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 marks | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | marks | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Showing that the teacher dislikes you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 dislikes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dislikes | nsubj |
| 5 | dislikes | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Showing | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dislikes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | dislike | present | the teacher | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Helping you find and fix mistakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Helping | ccomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fix | cc |
| 5 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | conj |
| 6 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fix | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | gerund | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | find | present | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fix | present | you not said here | mistakes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient |
Option 3
Scaring pupils into practising more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scaring | scare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Scaring | obj |
| 3 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 4 practising | mark |
| 4 | practising | practise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Scaring | advcl |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 practising | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare | gerund | pupils | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pupil=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | practise | gerund | more | tree rules |
Option 4
Making the page look more colourful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 look | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 page | det |
| 3 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 colourful | advmod |
| 6 | colourful | colourful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | you not said here | the page | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset page=Product | ||||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | colourful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/t4/