Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth
In an art gallery: "The painting shows Rubenesque women dancing." What do the women look like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: painting, Rubenesque women, women · What happens: show, dance, look · To what, where: art gallery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 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
Sentence 1: In an art gallery: "The painting shows Rubenesque women dancing."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 gallery | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gallery | det |
| 3 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gallery | compound |
| 4 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 painting | det |
| 8 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | nsubj |
| 9 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Rubenesque | Rubenesque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 women | compound |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dancing | nsubj |
| 12 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 shows | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | present | the painting | a art gallery | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dance in a quote | gerund | Rubenesque women | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What do the women look like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 look | obl |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 women | det |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 look | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · do-support | the women | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Plump and attractive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 attractive | cc |
| 3 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Plump | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Thin and pale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pale | cc |
| 3 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Thin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Old and wrinkled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wrinkled | cc |
| 3 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Old | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Small and short
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 short | cc |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Small | conj |
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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