Test 6 · ★ · Tests, exams and mistakes

What does a low mark really tell you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: low mark · What happens: tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mark	det
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mark	amod
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	a low mark		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That you should stop trying, because tests are unfair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 stop	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stop	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unfair	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 unfair	mark
8	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 unfair	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unfair	cop
10	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stop	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	should	That		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	try	gerund	That not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	tests	unfair property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

What you need to practise next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 practise	mark
5	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	next	next	ADV	_	5 practise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	practise not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					next property	tree rules

Option 3

That the teacher does not like you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 teacher	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	that teacher	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme

Option 4

That you will never be good at the subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 good	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 good	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 good	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 subject	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 subject	det
9	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	future	That			the subject		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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