Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes
Report card: "Maths: below expectations." How is the pupil doing in maths?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pupil · What happens: be, do · To what, where: maths
This is test 9 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: Report card: "Maths: below expectations."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 card | compound |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Maths | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Maths | punct |
| 5 | Maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 card | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 expectations | punct |
| 7 | below | below | ADP | _ | 8 expectations | case |
| 8 | expectations | expectation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 card | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 card | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 card | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: How is the pupil doing in maths?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pupil | det |
| 4 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 pupil | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 maths | case |
| 7 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 doing | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the pupil | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | the pupil not said here | maths | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
It has not been marked
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 | 5 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 marked | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 marked | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 marked | aux:pass |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mark | present · perfect · passive | It | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
Option 2
About right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 right | advmod |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Very well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 well | advmod |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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