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description: "ugh my report says i'm working at my own pace lol" — what did the teacher mean? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 16 «Soft words for hard things: 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 option; Mova's cho
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# Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers

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"ugh my report says i'm working at my own pace lol" — what did the teacher mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** report, my · **What happens:** say, work, mean, report · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 16 «Soft words for hard things: 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/16-school-reports/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:16-school-reports:t2:1
# text = "ugh my report says i'm working at my own pace lol" — what did the teacher mean?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
6	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lol	lol	NOUN	NN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my report |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **work** *in a quote* | present · progressive | my report *= report* |  |  |  |  | at my own pace lol | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lol=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **report** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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You are very slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:16-school-reports:t2:o1:1
# text = You are very slow
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You set your own homework

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:16-school-reports:t2:o2:1
# text = You set your own homework
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | You | your own homework |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient homework=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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You are a fast runner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:16-school-reports:t2:o3:1
# text = You are a fast runner
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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You are ahead of everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:16-school-reports:t2:o4:1
# text = You are ahead of everyone
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | of everyone; ahead *property* | tree rules |

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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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