Modal Meanings · Four Context Files — Match supplied modal statements to ability, permission/request or possibility in a stated fictional context, allowing multiple valid forms…

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item</button></div><p id="evidence-text-0" class="evidence" hidden></p></section><section><label for="function-0">Function in context 1</label><select id="function-0"><option value="">Choose a function</option><option value="ability">Ability</option><option value="permission">Permission</option><option value="possibility">Possibility</option></select><p id="feedback-0" class="notice" role="status">Not answered.</p></section></article><article class="case"><section><p class="case-index">CONTEXT 2</p><p>Eli demonstrates solving the supplied puzzle without help.</p><p class="statement">“Eli can solve the puzzle.”</p><div class="actions"><button type="button" id="evidence-1" class="secondary">Examine context evidence</button><button type="button" id="retry-1" class="secondary">Retry this item</button></div><p id="evidence-text-1" class="evidence" hidden></p></section><section><label for="function-1">Function in context 2</label><select id="function-1"><option value="">Choose a function</option><option value="ability">Ability</option><option value="permission">Permission</option><option value="possibility">Possibility</option></select><p id="feedback-1" class="notice" role="status">Not answered.</p></section></article><article class="case"><section><p class="case-index">CONTEXT 3</p><p>Clouds are visible in the fictional scene; rain is unconfirmed.</p><p class="statement">“It might rain.”</p><div class="actions"><button type="button" id="evidence-2" class="secondary">Examine context evidence</button><button type="button" id="retry-2" class="secondary">Retry this item</button></div><p id="evidence-text-2" class="evidence" hidden></p></section><section><label for="function-2">Function in context 3</label><select id="function-2"><option value="">Choose a function</option><option value="ability">Ability</option><option value="permission">Permission</option><option value="possibility">Possibility</option></select><p id="feedback-2" class="notice" role="status">Not answered.</p></section></article><article class="case"><section><p class="case-index">CONTEXT 4</p><p>The same approved fictional club note permits members to borrow pencils.</p><p class="statement">“Members can borrow pencils.”</p><div class="actions"><button type="button" id="evidence-3" class="secondary">Examine context evidence</button><button type="button" id="retry-3" class="secondary">Retry this item</button></div><p id="evidence-text-3" class="evidence" hidden></p></section><section><label for="function-3">Function in context 4</label><select id="function-3"><option value="">Choose a function</option><option value="ability">Ability</option><option value="permission">Permission</option><option value="possibility">Possibility</option></select><p id="feedback-3" class="notice" role="status">Not answered.</p></section></article><div class="actions"><button type="button" id="check-contexts">Check the four contexts</button><button type="button" id="reset" class="secondary">Reset all practice</button></div><p id="summary" class="muted" role="status">No context choices checked.</p><section class="request below"><p class="eyebrow">Separate request task · two approved options</p><h2>Choose a polite way to ask to borrow a pencil.</h2><div class="actions"><button type="button" id="request-may" class="secondary">May I borrow a pencil?</button><button type="button" id="request-could" class="secondary">Could I borrow a pencil?</button></div><div class="actions"><button type="button" id="check-request">Check selected request</button></div><p id="request-feedback" class="notice" role="status">Not answered.</p><p class="muted">A request asks for permission or help. It is not approval already granted.</p></section><details><summary>Teacher key · separate from learner choices</summary><p>Context1 permission;2 ability;3 possibility;4 permission. Both offered requests are accepted with the same policy. Other natural request forms may exist; this fixed-choice exercise checks only the offered options.</p></details><p class="foot">All notes, puzzle demonstrations and weather details are fictional supplied contexts. No real permission, forecast, learner result or saved score is represented. The client-side key is inspectable, not secure assessment storage. No open-text meaning grading or universal one-modal/one-function rule.</p></main><script>'use strict';const $=id=>document.getElementById(id);const cases=[["The approved fictional club note permits members to borrow pencils.","Members may borrow pencils.","permission","The supplied note authorizes borrowing; this is permission, not a demonstrated skill."],["Eli demonstrates solving the supplied puzzle without help.","Eli can solve the puzzle.","ability","The supplied demonstration supports ability; no ability is inferred from Eli’s name."],["Clouds are visible in the fictional scene; rain is unconfirmed.","It might rain.","possibility","Rain is possible, not confirmed. This fictional scene is not a weather forecast."],["The same approved fictional club note permits members to borrow pencils.","Members can borrow pencils.","permission","Here can expresses permission because the supplied note permits borrowing. Can does not always mean ability."]];let request=null;
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