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Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

A teacher to a parent: "Max is a bit slow with fractions." What is the teacher saying gently?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: A teacher to a parent: "Max is a bit slow with fractions."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slow	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 parent	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parent	det
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teacher	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
8	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 slow	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 slow	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slow	obl:unmarked
12	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 fractions	case
14	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slow	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a teacher to a parent					with fractions; a bit obl:unmarked; slow property	tree rules

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 saying gently?

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	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 teacher	acl
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 saying	advmod
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	say speech: assert	gerund	the teacher not said here					gently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Max is often late for maths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 late	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 maths	case
6	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Max					for maths; late, often property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Max finds fractions hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 finds	obj
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 finds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Max	fractions				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=Topic

Option 3

Max writes fractions slowly but well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 writes	obj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 writes	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 well	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 slowly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Max	fractions				slowly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=Theme

Option 4

Max is the best at fractions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 best	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 fractions	case
6	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 best	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Max			fractions		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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