Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…
A US report card shows "Not yet" in reading. How did the pupil do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: US report card, pupil · What happens: show, do · To what, where: reading
This is test 10 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A US report card shows "Not yet" in reading.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 card | det |
| 2 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 card | compound |
| 3 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 card | compound |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 yet | punct |
| 7 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 yet | advmod |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 shows | ccomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 yet | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 reading | case |
| 11 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a US report card | reading | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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: How did the pupil do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pupil | det |
| 4 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | the pupil | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Passed with honours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 honours | case |
| 3 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Passed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | with honours | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Failed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Absent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Got the top grade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grade | det |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grade | amod |
| 4 | grade | grade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the top grade | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grade=Stimulus |
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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