Test 3 · ★★ · When the teacher gets it wrong

Which is the best way to tell a teacher they might be wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: best way, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wrong	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wrong	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 wrong	cop
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tell	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best way			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			a teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
3	is	might	they			wrong 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

By refusing to do the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 refusing	mark
2	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refusing	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	gerund							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not do	to-infinitive		the work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 2

Loudly, in front of everyone, to be fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 front	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Loudly	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 front	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	10 fair	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fair	cop
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 everyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						fair property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Privately, politely, with a good source

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Privately	privately	ADV	_	3 politely	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Privately	punct
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 politely	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 source	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 source	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 source	amod
8	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 politely	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

By getting your parent to shout at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 getting	mark
2	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parent	nmod:poss
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 getting	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shout	mark
6	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 getting	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		your parent					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus
2	shout speech: express	to-infinitive						at them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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