Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…
It is given that a school has been placed in "special measures". Identify the principal implication of this designation.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, place, identify, implicate · To what, where: It, school, special measures, principal implication, designation
This is exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a school has been placed in "special measures".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 placed | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 school | det |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 placed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 placed | aux:pass |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 measures | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 measures | punct |
| 12 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 measures | amod |
| 13 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 placed | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 measures | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | place | present · perfect · passive | a school | special measures | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in measure=Destination |
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: Identify the principal implication of this designation.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 implication | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 implication | amod |
| 4 | implication | implication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 designation | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 designation | det |
| 7 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 implication | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal implication of this designation | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent implication=Theme | ||||
| 2 | implicate | this designation | nom implication «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The school has been granted additional funding for excellence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 granted | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 granted | aux:pass |
| 5 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 funding | amod |
| 7 | funding | funding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 excellence | case |
| 9 | excellence | excellence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 funding | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | present · perfect · passive | the school | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal funding=Theme |
Option 2
The school has adopted new systems of measurement
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 adopted | aux |
| 4 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 systems | amod |
| 6 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 adopted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 measurement | case |
| 8 | measurement | measurement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 systems | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | present · perfect · passive | the school | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme system=Attribute |
Option 3
The school is closed for a holiday period
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | aux:pass |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 period | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 period | det |
| 7 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 period | compound |
| 8 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present · passive | the school | for a holiday period | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The school is failing and subject to close supervision
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 failing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 failing | aux |
| 4 | failing | fail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 subject | cc |
| 6 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 failing | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 supervision | case |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 supervision | amod |
| 9 | supervision | supervision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 failing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present · progressive | the school | to close supervision | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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