Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers

"report says i would benefit from more practice with times tables, so like optional right" — is it optional?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: report · What happens: say, benefit, be · To what, where: more practice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 benefit	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 benefit	aux
6	benefit	benefit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 practice	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 practice	amod
9	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 benefit	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tables	case
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tables	compound
12	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 benefit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 right	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 right	case
16	optional	optional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 right	amod
17	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 benefit	parataxis
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 optional	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 optional	cop
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 optional	nsubj
22	optional	optional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 benefit	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	report			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	benefit in a quote	would	report	more practice	with times tables	vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary from practice=Causer
3	is	present	report		optional property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is just a suggestion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 suggestion	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 suggestion	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 suggestion	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 suggestion	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 suggestion	det
7	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a suggestion					tree rules

Option 2

No, it means you must teach it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 teach	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 teach	aux
7	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	teach speech: other	must	you		it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it means you badly need it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 need	advmod
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	present	you	it				badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

Yes, only if you want a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 want	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prize	det
8	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	you	a prize					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prize=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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