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Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

The science teacher drops the egg: "Ha! A teachable moment, everyone — what went wrong?" What is she doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: science teacher, teachable moment, teacher · What happens: drop, go, do · To what, where: egg

This is test 11 of lesson 35 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» 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: The science teacher drops the egg: "Ha!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
2	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	compound
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drops	nsubj
4	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drops	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 drops	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Ha	punct
9	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	4 drops	discourse
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 drops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	the science teacher	the egg					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

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: A teachable moment, everyone — what went wrong?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
2	teachable	teachable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moment	amod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 everyone	punct
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 moment	conj
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a teachable moment					wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: What is she doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	teacher						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Turning her mistake into a lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mistake	nmod:poss
3	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 lesson	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lesson	det
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		her mistake		a lesson			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme into lesson=Trajectory
2	mistake		her = she						nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Blaming a pupil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pupil	det
3	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blaming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund		a pupil					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme

Option 3

Starting a test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 test	det
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Starting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund		a test					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality

Option 4

Ending the lesson early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ending	obj
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Ending	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	gerund		the lesson				early property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality lesson=Eventuality

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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