Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…
School report: "Writing: emerging." How is the child doing in writing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: emerge, be, do · To what, where: writing
This is test 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. 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: School report: "Writing: emerging."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | School | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 report | compound |
| 2 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Writing | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Writing | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Writing | punct |
| 5 | Writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 emerging | punct |
| 7 | emerging | emerge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Writing | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Writing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Writing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerge in a quote | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: How is the child doing in writing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 child | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 writing | case |
| 7 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the child | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | the child not said here | writing | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Above the expected level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 4 level | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 level | det |
| 3 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 level | amod |
| 4 | level | level | 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 |
Option 2
At the expected level for her age
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 level | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 level | det |
| 3 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 level | amod |
| 4 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 age | nmod:poss |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 level | nmod |
| # | 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 |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Well below the expected level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 level | discourse |
| 2 | below | below | ADP | _ | 5 level | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 level | det |
| 4 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 level | amod |
| 5 | level | level | 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 |
Option 4
Getting top marks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 marks | amod |
| 3 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Getting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | top marks | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |
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/t2/