Test 13 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth
A magazine headline: "Curvy is the new beautiful." What kind of body is it praising?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Curvy, kind · What happens: be, praise · To what, where: magazine headline, kind
This is test 13 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: A magazine headline: "Curvy is the new beautiful."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 headline | det |
| 2 | magazine | magazine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 headline | compound |
| 3 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 6 | Curvy | Curvy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beautiful | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beautiful | amod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 headline | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Curvy | a magazine headline not said here | beautiful property | tree rules |
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 kind of body is it praising?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 praising | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 body | case |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 praising | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 praising | nsubj |
| 7 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 praising | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | present · progressive | kind | what kind of body | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A muscly shape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shape | det |
| 2 | muscly | muscly | ADJ | _ | 3 shape | amod |
| 3 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A plump, rounded shape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shape | det |
| 2 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shape | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 plump | punct |
| 4 | rounded | rounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shape | amod |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A thin straight shape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shape | det |
| 2 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shape | amod |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shape | amod |
| 4 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A tall shape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shape | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shape | amod |
| 3 | shape | shape | 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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