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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth

Cousin: "She's 4 months gone and only just showing." What does "showing" mean here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cousin · What happens: go, show, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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: Cousin: "She's 4 months gone and only just showing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Cousin	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
4	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
6	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gone	nsubj
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 showing	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 showing	advmod
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 showing	advmod
12	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gone	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · passive	Cousin						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show in a quote	gerund	Cousin not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 does "showing" mean here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 showing	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 showing	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 showing	punct
4	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 showing	parataxis
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mean	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 showing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show in a quote	present · do-support							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mean	infinitive				here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The pregnancy is starting to be seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pregnancy	det
2	pregnancy	pregnancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starting	aux
4	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 seen	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 starting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present · progressive	the pregnancy						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	see	to-infinitive · passive	the pregnancy not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

She arrived at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 arrived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	She			last			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She is showing photos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	aux
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · progressive	She	photos					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=Recipient

Option 4

She is going on stage in the school show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 stage	case
5	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 show	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 show	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	compound
9	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	She			stage		in the school show	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stage=Location

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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