Test 2 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no

Which shows the healthiest attitude to a bad test mark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: show · To what, where: healthiest attitude, bad test mark

This is test 2 of lesson 99 «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 attitude	det
4	healthiest	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 attitude	amod
5	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 mark	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mark	det
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mark	amod
9	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mark	compound
10	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		the healthiest attitude	a bad test mark				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attitude=Topic to mark=Recipient

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

It means I should stop trying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	mean	present	It	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	should	I	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	try	gerund	I not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It proves I am not clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 clever	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	I					clever property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It shows me what to practise next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 shows	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 practise	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 practise	mark
6	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	parataxis
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 practise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	practise	to-infinitive						next property	tree rules

Option 4

It means the teacher does not like me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 like	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 like	advmod
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like	present · do-support	the teacher	me					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme

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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