Exam question 2 · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★
A school report states that a pupil is "emerging" in reading. Identify the plain meaning of this statement.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: report states, you · What happens: emerge, identify, mean · To what, where: reading, plain meaning, statement
This is exam question 2 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 report states that a pupil is "emerging" in reading.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 states | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 report | compound |
| 3 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 states | compound |
| 4 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 emerging | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 emerging | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pupil | det |
| 7 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 emerging | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 emerging | aux |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 emerging | punct |
| 10 | emerging | emerge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 emerging | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 reading | case |
| 13 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 emerging | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 emerging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerge in a quote | present · progressive | a report states | reading | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reading=Location |
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: Identify the plain meaning of this statement.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meaning | det |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meaning | amod |
| 4 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 statement | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 statement | det |
| 7 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meaning | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the plain meaning of this statement | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | this statement | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The pupil is at exactly the expected level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 level | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 level | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 level | case |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 level | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 level | det |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 level | amod |
| 8 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the pupil | the expected level | exactly property | tree rules |
Option 2
The pupil is well above the expected level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 level | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 level | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 level | advmod |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 level | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 level | det |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 level | amod |
| 8 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the pupil | the expected level | well property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The pupil is well below the expected level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 level | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 level | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 level | advmod |
| 5 | below | below | ADP | _ | 8 level | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 level | det |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 level | amod |
| 8 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the pupil | the expected level | well property | tree rules |
Option 4
The pupil has not yet begun reading lessons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begun | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 begun | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 begun | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 begun | advmod |
| 6 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lessons | compound |
| 8 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 begun | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not begin | present · perfect | the pupil | reading lessons | yet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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