Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers
The head says at assembly: "Year 5 have been a challenging class this term." What happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: head, Year · What happens: say, be, happen · To what, where: assembly, challenging class · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: The head says at assembly: "Year 5 have been a challenging class this term."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 assembly | case |
| 5 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 class | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 class | punct |
| 8 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 class | nsubj |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Year | flat |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Year | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 class | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 class | det |
| 13 | challenging | challenging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 class | amod |
| 14 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 term | det |
| 16 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 class | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 class | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 class | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the head | assembly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | participle | Year | a challenging class | this term obl:unmarked | 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.
Sentence 2: What happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 · ✓ the right answer
Year 5 behaved badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 behaved | compound |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Year | flat |
| 3 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 behaved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave | participle | badly property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Year 5 did the hardest work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Year | flat |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 work | det |
| 5 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 work | amod |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Year | the hardest work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
Option 3
Year 5 won a competition
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | nsubj |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Year | flat |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 competition | det |
| 5 | competition | competition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Year | a competition | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent competition=Eventuality |
Option 4
Year 5 asked lots of good questions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Year | flat |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 questions | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 questions | amod |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Year | lots of good questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient |
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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