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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers

Mum reads: "Ella is a confident speaker and an enthusiastic contributor." What is Ella probably doing in class?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, Ella · What happens: read, be, do · To what, where: confident speaker, class · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 16 «Soft words for hard things: 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: Mum reads: "Ella is a confident speaker and an enthusiastic contributor."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 speaker	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 speaker	punct
5	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 speaker	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 speaker	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 speaker	det
8	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speaker	amod
9	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 contributor	cc
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 contributor	det
12	enthusiastic	enthusiastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 contributor	amod
13	contributor	contributor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speaker	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 speaker	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 speaker	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Mum						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Ella	a confident speaker and a enthusiastic contributor					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.

Sentence 2: What is Ella probably doing in class?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 doing	advmod
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 class	case
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	Ella			class		probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Sitting quietly and listening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 listening	cc
4	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	gerund							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Talking over others and shouting out answers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 others	case
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Talking	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shouting	cc
5	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Talking	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 shouting	compound:prt
7	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shouting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund				others			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout out speech: express	gerund		answers					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic

Option 3

Giving speeches to the whole school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Giving	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 school	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 school	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 school	amod
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		speeches	the whole school				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent speech=Theme to school=Recipient

Option 4

Collecting money for charity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Collecting	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 charity	case
4	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Collecting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	gerund		money				for charity	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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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