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Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

"Your homework shows room for improvement, Sam." What is the teacher telling Sam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: homework, teacher · What happens: show, be, tell · To what, where: room, Sam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» 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: "Your homework shows room for improvement, Sam."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 homework	nmod:poss
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 improvement	case
7	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Sam	punct
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shows	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show in a quote	present	Your homework	room				for improvement	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Recipient

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 the teacher telling Sam?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 teacher	acl
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the teacher						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the teacher not said here		Sam				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He should do less homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 homework	amod
5	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	He	less homework					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality

Option 2

He needs a bigger room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 room	det
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 room	amod
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	He	a bigger room					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His homework is not good enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 homework	nmod:poss
2	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 good	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	His homework					enough, good property	tree rules

Option 4

His homework is perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 homework	nmod:poss
2	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perfect	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 perfect	cop
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	His homework					perfect 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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