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title: A school report states that a pupil is "emerging" in reading. Identi… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A school report states that a pupil is "emerging" in reading. Identify the plain meaning of this statement. Exam question 2 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 2 · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★

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A school report states that a pupil is "emerging" in reading. Identify the plain meaning of this statement.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** report states, you · **What happens:** emerge, identify, mean · **To what, where:** reading, plain meaning, statement

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A school report states that a pupil is "emerging" in reading.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines:e2:1
# text = A school report states that a pupil is "emerging" in reading.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a report states |  |  | reading |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reading=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:* Identify the plain meaning of this statement.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines:e2:2
# text = Identify the plain meaning of this statement.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the plain meaning of this statement |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** |  |  | this statement |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The pupil is at exactly the expected level

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines:e2:o1:1
# text = The pupil is at exactly the expected level
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the pupil |  |  | the expected level |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The pupil is well above the expected level

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines:e2:o2:1
# text = The pupil is well above the expected level
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the pupil |  |  | the expected level |  | well *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The pupil is well below the expected level

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines:e2:o3:1
# text = The pupil is well below the expected level
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	below	below	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the pupil |  |  | the expected level |  | well *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The pupil has not yet begun reading lessons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines:e2:o4:1
# text = The pupil has not yet begun reading lessons
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **begin** | present · perfect | the pupil | reading lessons |  |  | yet |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality |

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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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