Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

A text from Auntie: "guess who's getting a visit from the stork 👶🎉" What is she announcing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: guess, get, announce · To what, where: visit, 👶 🎉 · Speech: someone speaks here

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

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Auntie	case
4	Auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 text	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct
7	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 text	parataxis
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 getting	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 getting	aux
10	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 guess	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 visit	det
12	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 getting	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 🎉	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 🎉	det
15	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 👶	compound
16	👶	👶	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 🎉	compound
17	🎉	🎉	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 getting	obl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 announcing	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 announcing	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 announcing	aux
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 announcing	nsubj
22	announcing	announce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 getting	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	guess in a quote	infinitive				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present · progressive		a visit	the 👶 🎉	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from 🎉=Source
3	announce speech: other	present · progressive	she			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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 bird nest on the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nest	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nest	compound
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nest	nmod

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

Option 2

A new pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A baby is coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	a baby						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A trip to the zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trip	det
2	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 zoo	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trip	nmod

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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