Test 5 · Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback
Owen thinks two stars means "only two out of five". What is the correction?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Owen, two stars, correction · What happens: think, mean, be · To what, where: two, five · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: Owen thinks two stars means "only two out of five".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stars | nummod |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 two | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 two | advmod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 five | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 five | case |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 two | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 two | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Owen | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | two stars | two | five | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Topic |
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 is the correction?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 correction | det |
| 4 | correction | correction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the correction | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Two stars means he must repeat the year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 stars | nummod |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 repeat | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 repeat | aux |
| 6 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 means | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeat | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Two stars | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | repeat | must | he | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
It means two people in the class liked it and everybody else did not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 people | nummod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 liked | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 class | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 class | det |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 8 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 liked | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 did | cc |
| 11 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 did | nsubj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 everybody | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like | past | two people in the class | class | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do | past | everybody | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It means two good points and one wish to work on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 points | nummod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 points | amod |
| 5 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 means | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wish | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 wish | nummod |
| 8 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 points | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 work | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | two good points and one wish | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Topic | ||||
| 2 | work on | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It is a score out of five, so he did badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 score | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 score | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 score | det |
| 4 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 five | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 five | case |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 score | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 score | parataxis |
| 12 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a score | five | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | he | badly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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