Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers an…
A news headline: "Primary school placed in special measures after damning report." What does it say about the school?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school · What happens: place, damn, say · To what, where: Primary school, special measures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 news headline: "Primary school placed in special measures after damning report."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 headline | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 headline | compound |
| 3 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 school | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 school | punct |
| 6 | Primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 school | amod |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 headline | conj |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 school | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 measures | case |
| 10 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 measures | amod |
| 11 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 placed | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 report | case |
| 13 | damning | damn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 report | amod |
| 14 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 headline | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 headline | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place in a quote | participle | Primary school not said here | special measures | after damning report | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in measure=Destination | |||
| 2 | damn in a quote | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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: What does it say about the school?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 school | det |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | school | about the school | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It has new measuring tools
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 | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tools | amod |
| 4 | measuring | measuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tools | compound |
| 5 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | new measuring tools | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |
Option 2
It is closing for a holiday
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 closing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closing | aux |
| 3 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 holiday | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 holiday | det |
| 6 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present · progressive | It | for a holiday | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is failing and will be closely supervised
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 failing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 failing | aux |
| 3 | failing | fail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 supervised | cc |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 supervised | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 supervised | aux:pass |
| 7 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 8 supervised | advmod |
| 8 | supervised | supervise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 failing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present · progressive | It | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | supervise | future · passive | closely property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate» |
Option 4
It got special money for being good
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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 money | amod |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 good | cop |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | It | special money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | good 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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