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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

Teacher: "Report says 'working towards' in maths. Not a fail, but not there yet." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher Report · What happens: say, work, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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: Teacher: "Report says 'working towards' in maths.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Report	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Teacher	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Teacher	punct
4	Report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 working	punct
7	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 says	ccomp
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 '	case
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 working	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 maths	case
11	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 working	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Teacher Report						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work in a quote	gerund						in maths	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in math=Theme

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: Not a fail, but not there yet."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 fail	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fail	det
3	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 there	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fail	parataxis
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fail	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fail	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The child has finished maths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 finished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	present · perfect	the child	maths					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector math=Eventuality

Option 2

The child changed classes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the child	classes					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient

Option 3

The child is well above the expected standard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 standard	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 standard	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 standard	advmod
5	above	above	ADP	_	8 standard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 standard	det
7	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 standard	amod
8	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the child			the expected standard		well property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The child is below the expected standard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standard	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 standard	cop
4	below	below	ADP	_	7 standard	case
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	root	root

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

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