--- title: "Your homework shows room for improvement, Sam." What is the teacher… — Soft words for hard things: failure an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Your homework shows room for improvement, Sam." What is the teacher telling Sam? Test 2 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/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: failure an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/) / t2 # Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes "Your homework shows room for improvement, Sam." What is the teacher telling Sam? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** homework, teacher · **What happens:** show, be, tell · **To what, where:** room, Sam · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 2 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» 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/33-failure-and-mistakes/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "Your homework shows room for improvement, Sam." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t2:1 # text = "Your homework shows room for improvement, Sam." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 improvement improvement NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** *in a quote* | present | Your homework | room | | | | for improvement | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=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. *Sentence 2:* What is the teacher telling Sam? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t2:2 # text = What is the teacher telling Sam? 1 What what PRON WP 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 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the teacher | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the teacher *not said here* | | Sam | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} He should do less homework ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t2:o1:1 # text = He should do less homework 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | should | He | less homework | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | ### Option 2 {#o2} He needs a bigger room ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t2:o2:1 # text = He needs a bigger room 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | He | a bigger room | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} His homework is not good enough ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t2:o3:1 # text = His homework is not good enough 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 enough enough ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | His homework | | | | | enough, good *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} His homework is perfect ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t2:o4:1 # text = His homework is perfect 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | His homework | | | | | perfect *property* | tree rules | **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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