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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…

The teacher writes: "Amir is a late bloomer; I expect great things." What is she saying now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Amir, I · What happens: write, be, expect, say · To what, where: late bloomer, great things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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: The teacher writes: "Amir is a late bloomer; I expect great things."

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 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 bloomer	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bloomer	punct
6	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bloomer	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bloomer	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bloomer	det
9	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bloomer	amod
10	bloomer	bloomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 expect	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 expect	nsubj
13	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 writes	parataxis
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 expect	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Amir	a late bloomer					tree rules
3	expect in a quote	present	I	great things					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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 is she saying now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saying	nsubj
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saying	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	Amir				now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Amir is always late to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amir	amir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Amir					to school; always, late property	tree rules

Option 2

Amir is ahead of the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ahead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ahead	cop
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ahead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Amir					of the class; ahead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Amir is behind for now but may catch up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 behind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 behind	cop
3	behind	behind	ADV	_	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 now	case
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 behind	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 catch	cc
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	aux
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 behind	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 catch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Amir					behind property	tree rules
2	catch up	may	Amir not said here						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Amir is great at gardening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 great	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 great	cop
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 gardening	case
5	gardening	gardening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 great	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Amir			gardening		great property	tree rules

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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