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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers

A friend gets a failed spelling test back. The teacher says, "Think of it as a learning opportunity!" What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, teacher · What happens: get, fail, say, think, happen · To what, where: failed spelling test · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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: A friend gets a failed spelling test back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 test	det
5	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 test	amod
6	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 test	compound
7	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a friend	a failed spelling test					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus
2	fail	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: The teacher says, "Think of it as a learning opportunity!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Think	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Think	punct
6	Think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Think	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 opportunity	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 opportunity	det
11	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opportunity	compound
12	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Think	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Think	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive						of teacher; as a learning opportunity	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What really happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He was chosen to teach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chosen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 teach	mark
5	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chosen	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		He					tree rules
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He failed the test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 test	det
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 failed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	He	the test					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality

Option 3

He got full marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marks	amod
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	full marks					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus

Option 4

He got a free lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lesson	amod
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	a free lesson					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=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.

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