Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…

"teacher's having a quiet word with Jake, he's bricking it" — why is Jake scared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake · What happens: have, brick, be · To what, where: quiet word, word

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	_	4 having	punct
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 teacher	case
4	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 Jake	case
9	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bricking	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bricking	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bricking	aux
13	bricking	brick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 having	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bricking	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 bricking	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 scared	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 scared	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 scared	cop
19	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 scared	nsubj
20	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 having	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 having	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	gerund		a quiet word	with Jake	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	brick in a quote	present · progressive	Jake	word		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
3	is	present	Jake		scared property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He has to whisper a speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 whisper	mark
4	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speech	det
6	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whisper	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He						tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	He not said here	a speech					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He is getting a private telling-off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 getting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	aux
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 off	det
5	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 off	amod
6	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 off	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct
8	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	He	a private telling off					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer off=Stimulus

Option 3

He won a secret prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prize	det
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prize	amod
5	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

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

Option 4

He lost his voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his voice					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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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