--- title: A school letter: "Children with special needs will get extra time in… — Soft words for hard things: illness, d… · tree and pragmatics description: A school letter: "Children with special needs will get extra time in tests." Who gets extra time? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/t4/) [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: illness, d…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body A school letter: "Children with special needs will get extra time in tests." Who gets extra time? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** tests This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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/4-illness-disability-and-babies/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A school letter: "Children with special needs will get extra time in tests." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:4-illness-disability-and-babies:t4:1 # text = A school letter: "Children with special needs will get extra time in tests." 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 appos _ _ 12 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | future | Children with special needs | | | tests | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:* Who gets extra time? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:4-illness-disability-and-babies:t4:2 # text = Who gets extra time? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | | | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Children who are very clever ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:4-illness-disability-and-babies:t4:o1:1 # text = Children who are very clever 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Children | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Children who ask for it ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:4-illness-disability-and-babies:t4:o2:1 # text = Children who ask for it 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Children | | | | | for it | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Children who are late to school in the morning ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:4-illness-disability-and-babies:t4:o3:1 # text = Children who are late to school in the morning 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Children | | | | morning | to school; late *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Children whose disabilities need extra help ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:4-illness-disability-and-babies:t4:o4:1 # text = Children whose disabilities need extra help 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 disabilities disability NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Children and Children and Children's disabilities's disabilities | extra help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | **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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