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

A politician says: "Every child, including those born out of wedlock, deserves equal rights." Which children are meant?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: politician, child · What happens: say, bear out, deserve, mean · To what, where: wedlock, equal rights, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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: A politician says: "Every child, including those born out of wedlock, deserves equal rights."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 politician	det
2	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 deserves	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 deserves	punct
6	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deserves	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 deserves	punct
9	including	including	ADP	_	10 those	case
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 deserves	obl
11	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 those	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 wedlock	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wedlock	case
14	wedlock	wedlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 born	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 those	punct
16	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
17	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rights	amod
18	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 deserves	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a politician						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bear out in a quote	participle		wedlock					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedlock=Patient
3	deserve in a quote	present	every child	equal rights				including those	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: Which children are meant?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meant	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	aux:pass
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · passive		which children					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

The options

Option 1

Children with no parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 parents	case
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 parents	det
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Children	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Children born at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Children	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		Children not said here		home			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Children born abroad in another country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Children	acl
3	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 born	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		Children not said here		another country		abroad property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Children whose parents were not married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 married	nsubj:pass
2	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 parents	nmod:poss
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Children	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 married	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 married	advmod
6	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	not marry	past · passive		Children Children Children's parents's parents					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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