Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth
News: "The couple are delighted to announce a blessed event in the spring." What will happen in spring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: couple · What happens: be, announce, happen · To what, where: blessed event
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 11 «Soft words for hard things: 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: News: "The couple are delighted to announce a blessed event in the spring."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 couple | det |
| 5 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 News | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 announce | mark |
| 9 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 delighted | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 event | det |
| 11 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 event | amod |
| 12 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announce | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 spring | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spring | det |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 event | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 News | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the couple | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the couple not said here | a blessed event | in the spring | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=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 will happen in spring?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spring | case |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | spring | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They will move to a church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 move | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | aux |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | future | They | a church | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to church=Trajectory |
Option 2
They will win a prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 win | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 win | aux |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prize | det |
| 5 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 win | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | future | They | a prize | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They will have a baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | They | a baby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
Option 4
They will get married
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux |
| 3 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | future · passive | They | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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