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Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

The doctor tells Dad: "You're carrying a few extra pounds — more walking, less beer." What is the doctor saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor, Dad · What happens: tell, carry, say · To what, where: Dad, few extra pounds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: The doctor tells Dad: "You're carrying a few extra pounds — more walking, less beer."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 carrying	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 carrying	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 carrying	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 carrying	aux
9	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tells	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pounds	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pounds	amod
12	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pounds	amod
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carrying	obj
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 walking	punct
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 walking	amod
16	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carrying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beer	punct
18	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 beer	amod
19	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walking	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the doctor		Dad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
2	carry in a quote	present · progressive	Dad	a few extra pounds				more walking and less beer obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=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 is the doctor saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	nsubj
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the doctor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dad owes money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owes	nsubj
2	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	present	Dad	money					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2

Dad walks too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	nsubj
2	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Dad	much					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dad is overweight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 overweight	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 overweight	cop
3	overweight	overweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Dad overweight					tree rules

Option 4

Dad has too much money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 money	amod
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Dad	much money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

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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