Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…
"Oi, you, the head wants to see you. Invited, like." What does the speaker mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: want, see, invite, mean · To what, where: you
This is test 12 · ★ 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.
vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2
seenot said to happen, in a quote
to-infinitive
you not said here
you
vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
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.
vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prize=Theme from head=Source
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.