Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body
A school letter: "Children with special needs will get extra time in tests." Who gets extra time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Children · What happens: get · To what, where: tests
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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 school letter: "Children with special needs will get extra time in tests."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 letter | compound |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Children | punct |
| 6 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 needs | case |
| 8 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 needs | amod |
| 9 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Children | nmod |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 letter | appos |
| 12 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tests | case |
| 15 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | future | Children with special needs | tests | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: Who gets extra time?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Children who are very clever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Children | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Children | clever property | tree rules |
Option 2
Children who ask for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Children | acl:relcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Children | for it | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Children who are late to school in the morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 late | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 late | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 late | cop |
| 4 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 late | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 late | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Children | morning | to school; late property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Children whose disabilities need extra help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 disabilities | nmod:poss |
| 3 | disabilities | disability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Children | conj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 help | amod |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Children and Children and Children's disabilities's disabilities | extra help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
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