--- title: School report: "Writing: emerging." How is the child doing in writing? — Soft words for hard things: children's… · tree and pragmatics description: School report: "Writing: emerging." How is the child doing in writing? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 15 «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: children's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo… School report: "Writing: emerging." How is the child doing in writing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** emerge, be, do · **To what, where:** writing This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 15 «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* School report: "Writing: emerging." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t2:1 # text = School report: "Writing: emerging." 1 School school NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 emerging emerge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **emerge** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:* How is the child doing in writing? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t2:2 # text = How is the child doing in writing? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the child | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | the child *not said here* | | | writing | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Above the expected level ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t2:o1:1 # text = Above the expected level 1 Above above ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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 | ### Option 2 {#o2} At the expected level for her age ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t2:o2:1 # text = At the expected level for her age 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | 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 | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Well below the expected level ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t2:o3:1 # text = Well below the expected level 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 2 below below ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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 | ### Option 4 {#o4} Getting top marks ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t2:o4:1 # text = Getting top marks 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 2 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | top marks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | **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. 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