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Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

It is given that a pupil's attainment in reading is recorded as "working towards" the expected standard. Ascertain the attainment thereby indicated.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: give, record, work, expect, attain, ascertain · To what, where: It, attainment, reading

This is exam question 2 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a pupil's attainment in reading is recorded as "working towards" the expected standard.

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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 recorded	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pupil	det
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attainment	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 pupil	case
8	attainment	attainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recorded	nsubj:pass
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 reading	case
10	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attainment	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 recorded	aux:pass
12	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	ccomp
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 working	mark
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 working	punct
15	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 recorded	advcl
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 standard	case
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 standard	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 standard	det
19	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 standard	amod
20	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 working	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					tree rules
2	record	present · passive		a pupil's attainment in reading					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	work in a quote	gerund						towards the expected standard	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	expect	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	attain		a pupil			reading			nom attainment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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: Ascertain the attainment thereby indicated.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attainment	det
3	attainment	attainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	5 indicated	advmod
5	indicated	indicate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 attainment	acl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the attainment					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attainment=Topic
2	indicate	participle		the attainment not said here				thereby property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Attainment that fully meets the expected standard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attainment	attainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 meets	nsubj
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	4 meets	advmod
4	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Attainment	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 standard	det
6	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 standard	amod
7	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	Attainment	the expected standard				fully property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-Agent
2	expect	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Attainment that cannot be assessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attainment	attainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 assessed	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 assessed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 assessed	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 assessed	aux:pass
6	assessed	assess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Attainment	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not assess	can · passive		Attainment					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme

Option 3

Attainment that exceeds the expected standard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attainment	attainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 exceeds	nsubj
3	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Attainment	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 standard	det
5	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 standard	amod
6	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exceeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	present	Attainment	the expected standard					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot standard=Theme
2	expect	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Attainment that does not yet meet the expected standard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attainment	attainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 meet	obj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meet	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 meet	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 meet	advmod
6	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Attainment	appos
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 standard	det
8	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 standard	amod
9	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	present · do-support		that			yet		tree rules
2	expect	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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