Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

It is given that a pupil's report states that the pupil's written work "needs improvement". Ascertain the assessment conveyed thereby.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: report, written work, pupil, you, assessment · What happens: give, state, write, need, report, work · To what, where: It, improvement · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a pupil's report states that the pupil's written work "needs improvement".

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: Ascertain the assessment conveyed thereby.

The options

Option 1

The pupil has completed an excessive quantity of work

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The work is of an unsatisfactory standard

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The pupil requires additional stationery

Option 4

The work is of an exemplary standard

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