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title: School report: "Tom is more practical than academic and shines in wo… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity… · tree and pragmatics
description: School report: "Tom is more practical than academic and shines in woodwork." What is the teacher really saying? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

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School report: "Tom is more practical than academic and shines in woodwork." What is the teacher really saying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Tom, teacher · **What happens:** be, shine · **To what, where:** woodwork

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» 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/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* School report: "Tom is more practical than academic and shines in woodwork."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t1:1
# text = School report: "Tom is more practical than academic and shines in woodwork."
1	School	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	academic	academic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	woodwork	woodwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tom |  |  |  |  | than academic; practical *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** *in a quote* | present | Tom *not said here* |  |  | woodwork |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in woodwork=Location |

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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:* What is the teacher really saying?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t1:2
# text = What is the teacher really saying?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Tom finds lessons hard but is good with his hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t1:o1:1
# text = Tom finds lessons hard but is good with his hands
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Tom | lessons |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Tom's hands; good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tom never comes to woodwork lessons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t1:o2:1
# text = Tom never comes to woodwork lessons
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	woodwork	woodwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | present | Tom |  |  | woodwork lessons |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lesson=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tom is too practical to need any school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t1:o3:1
# text = Tom is too practical to need any school
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Tom |  |  |  |  | practical *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | any school |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot school=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tom is the cleverest pupil in every subject

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t1:o4:1
# text = Tom is the cleverest pupil in every subject
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cleverest	clever	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tom | the cleverest pupil |  | every subject |  |  | 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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