Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers

"ugh my report says i'm working at my own pace lol" — what did the teacher mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: report, my · What happens: say, work, mean, report · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	5 says	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 report	nmod:poss
4	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mean	advcl
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 working	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 working	aux
8	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 lol	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lol	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lol	amod
12	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lol	compound
13	lol	lol	NOUN	_	8 working	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 working	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mean	aux
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 teacher	det
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	obj
20	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my report		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work in a quote	present · progressive	my report = report	at my own pace lol	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lol=Theme
3	mean	past · do-support			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	report in a quote		my		nom report «communication transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You are very slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 slow	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					slow property	tree rules

Option 2

You set your own homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 homework	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 homework	amod
5	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	You	your own homework					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient homework=Result

Option 3

You are a fast runner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 runner	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 runner	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 runner	det
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 runner	amod
5	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

You are ahead of everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ahead	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ahead	cop
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 ahead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					of everyone; ahead property	tree rules

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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