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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth

Grandma: "Your gran was a change-of-life baby, her mum was 46." What does it tell you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gran, mum · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: change, 46, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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: Grandma: "Your gran was a change-of-life baby, her mum was 46."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 baby	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 change	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gran	punct
4	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gran	nmod:poss
5	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 change	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 change	det
8	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 baby	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 life	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 of	punct
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 baby	compound
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 46	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 46	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 46	cop
18	46	46	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 baby	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 baby	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 baby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Your gran	a change					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	Grandma's mum	46					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 does it tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	gran		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

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

Her mother had her near the end of the child-bearing years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 years	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bearing	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 child	punct
12	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 years	compound
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Her mother	her = she			near the end of the bearing years		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

Gran was born late at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 born	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		Gran			night	late property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Gran changed her life at 46

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 46	case
6	46	46	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Gran	Gran's life		46			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

Option 4

Her mum changed jobs at 46

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 46	case
6	46	46	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Her mum	jobs		46			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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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