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Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers

Dad: "Creative spelling, it says. Creative! Bloody hell, mate." Why is Dad cross?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad, Dad cross · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Dad: "Creative spelling, it says.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 spelling	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 spelling	punct
4	Creative	creative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spelling	amod
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dad	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: Creative!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Creative	creative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Creative	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: Bloody hell, mate."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hell	amod
2	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hell	conj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hell	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hell	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 4: Why is Dad cross?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cross	compound
4	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

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

The teacher means the spelling is poor

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 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spelling	det
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poor	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poor	cop
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the teacher						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the spelling					poor property	tree rules

Option 2

The child forgot the report

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 report	det
5	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the child	the report					tree rules

Option 3

The teacher praised the spelling

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 praised	nsubj
3	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spelling	det
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 praised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	the teacher	the spelling					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Theme

Option 4

The child won an art prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
5	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prize	compound
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the child	a art prize					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality

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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