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title: Teacher in the staff room: "Oh, Mason's a live wire alright. Never s… — Soft words for hard things: children's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher in the staff room: "Oh, Mason's a live wire alright. Never sat still once." What is Mason like? Test 5 · ★ 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 pragmatic
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# Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and schoo…

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Teacher in the staff room: "Oh, Mason's a live wire alright. Never sat still once." What is Mason like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mason · **What happens:** be, not sit · **To what, where:** live wire, Mason

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher in the staff room: "Oh, Mason's a live wire alright.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t5:1
# text = Teacher in the staff room: "Oh, Mason's a live wire alright.
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Mason	Mason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	alright	alright	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Mason | a live wire |  |  |  | alright *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Never sat still once."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t5:2
# text = Never sat still once."
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What is Mason like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t5:3
# text = What is Mason like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Mason	Mason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Mason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Good at science

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t5:o1:1
# text = Good at science
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Very ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t5:o2:1
# text = Very ill
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Very hyperactive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t5:o3:1
# text = Very hyperactive
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hyperactive	hyperactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Very calm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:15-behaviour-and-school-reports:t5:o4:1
# text = Very calm
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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