Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…
Parents' evening: "Sophie is very sociable, she always has something to say to her neighbour." What is the teacher saying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: evening, Sophie, teacher · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: something, neighbour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 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. 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: Parents' evening: "Sophie is very sociable, she always has something to say to her neighbour."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 evening | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Parents | case |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sociable | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sociable | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sociable | punct |
| 6 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sociable | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sociable | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 sociable | advmod |
| 9 | sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 has | advmod |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sociable | conj |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 neighbour | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 say | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sociable | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sociable | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Parents's evening | sociable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Sophie | something | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Sophie not said here | something not said here | Sophie's neighbour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient |
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 teacher saying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 saying | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sophie chats too much in class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chats | nsubj |
| 2 | chats | chat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chats | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 class | case |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chats | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | present | Sophie | much | class | tree rules |
Option 2
Sophie has many friends at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friends | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Sophie | many friends | home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
Option 3
Sophie is popular and well behaved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 popular | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 popular | cop |
| 3 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 behaved | cc |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 behaved | advmod |
| 6 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 popular | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sophie | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behave | participle | Sophie not said here | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Sophie is good at speaking French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 speaking | case |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 good | obl |
| 6 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sophie | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | French | tree rules |
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/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/t1/