Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

Select the response consistent with the established meaning of the phrase "a happy event" in British usage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, mean · To what, where: response, phrase

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 meaning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meaning	amod
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 phrase	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 phrase	det
11	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 event	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 event	det
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 event	amod
15	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 phrase	appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 event	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 usage	case
18	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 usage	amod
19	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 event	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	mean			the phrase	nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

A birthday celebration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 celebration	det
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 celebration	compound
3	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A successful examination

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 examination	det
2	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 examination	amod
3	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The birth of a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birth	det
2	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 baby	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 birth	nmod

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

Option 4

A wedding ceremony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ceremony	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ceremony	compound
3	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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