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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers

A report says "Kai has his own way of doing things, which is not always the way he was asked." What is Kai doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: report, Kai, own way · What happens: say, have, do, not be, ask · To what, where: own way, things, way, report · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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 report says "Kai has his own way of doing things, which is not always the way he was asked."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 report	det
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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 doing	mark
11	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 way	acl
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 doing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 way	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 way	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 way	advmod
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 way	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 asked	aux:pass
22	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 way	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a report						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	Kai	Kai's own way and the way					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	do in a quote	gerund	Kai's own way and the way not said here	things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	not is a in a quote	present	Kai's own way and the way	the way				always property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	past · passive		report					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 Kai doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Inventing a new subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inventing	invent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 subject	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 subject	amod
4	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Inventing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	gerund		a new subject					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

Option 2

Helping the teacher mark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mark	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	compound
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Helping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	gerund		the teacher mark					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not following instructions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 following	advmod
2	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not follow	gerund		instructions					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme

Option 4

Working at home instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 home	case
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Working	obl
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund						at home; instead property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at home=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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