--- title: Report card: "Maths: below expectations." How is the pupil doing in… — Soft words for hard things: failure an… · tree and pragmatics description: Report card: "Maths: below expectations." How is the pupil doing in maths? Test 9 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 right. --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes Report card: "Maths: below expectations." How is the pupil doing in maths? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pupil · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** maths This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Report card: "Maths: below expectations." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t9:1 # text = Report card: "Maths: below expectations." 1 Report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 below below ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 expectations expectation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* How is the pupil doing in maths? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t9:2 # text = How is the pupil doing in maths? 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 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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 pupil | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | the pupil *not said here* | | | maths | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} It has not been marked ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t9:o1:1 # text = It has not been marked 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mark** | present · perfect · passive | | It | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ### Option 2 {#o2} About right ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t9:o2:1 # text = About right 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Very well ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t9:o3:1 # text = Very well 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Badly ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t9:o4:1 # text = Badly 1 Badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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