Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the archaic expression "with child".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, convey · To what, where: meaning

This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 accurately	advmod
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 conveyed	advmod
6	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meaning	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 expression	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 expression	det
9	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 expression	amod
10	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conveyed	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 expression	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 child	case
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expression	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 child	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	convey	participle		the meaning not said here				by the archaic expression with child; accurately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pregnant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Accompanied by an infant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 infant	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 infant	det
4	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Accompanied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle						by a infant	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by infant=Destination

Option 3

Possessing children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Possessing	possess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Possessing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	gerund		children					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Theme

Option 4

Engaged in the care of children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 care	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 care	det
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Engaged	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 care	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	participle						in the care of children goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in care=Goal
2	care		children						nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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