Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the remark in a school report that a pupil "has a lot of energy".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pupil · What happens: identify, convey, have · To what, where: meaning, school report

This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 accurately	advmod
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 conveyed	advmod
6	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meaning	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 remark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 remark	det
9	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conveyed	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 report	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 report	det
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 report	compound
13	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remark	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 has	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pupil	det
16	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 pupil	punct
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 report	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lot	det
20	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 energy	case
22	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lot	nmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 lot	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	convey	participle		the meaning not said here	by the remark in a school report; accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	present	a pupil	a school report		tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The pupil is in excellent physical health

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 health	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 health	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 health	case
5	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 health	amod
6	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 health	amod
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the pupil			excellent physical health			tree rules

Option 2

The pupil consumes a nutritious diet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consumes	nsubj
3	consumes	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 diet	det
5	nutritious	nutritious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 diet	amod
6	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consumes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present	the pupil	a nutritious diet					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diet=Asset

Option 3

The pupil excels in athletic competition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 excels	nsubj
3	excels	excel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 competition	case
5	athletic	athletic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 competition	amod
6	competition	competition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 excels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	excel	present	the pupil			athletic competition			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in competition=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The pupil experiences difficulty in remaining seated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 experiences	nsubj
3	experiences	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 experiences	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 remaining	mark
6	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 experiences	advcl
7	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 remaining	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	experience	present	the pupil	difficulty	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer difficulty=Stimulus
2	remain	gerund	the pupil not said here		tree rules
3	seat	participle	the pupil not said here		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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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