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Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth

Overheard on a bus: "She's up the duff again, that's number four." What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: She · What happens: overhear, be, go on · To what, where: bus, number

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Overheard on a bus: "She's up the duff again, that's number four."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 bus	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bus	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overheard	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 duff	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 duff	punct
7	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 duff	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 duff	cop
9	up	up	ADP	_	11 duff	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duff	det
11	duff	duff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overheard	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 duff	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 number	punct
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 number	det
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 number	cop
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 duff	conj
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 number	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 duff	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 duff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	participle				a bus			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	She				again	up the duff and that number	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	She not said here	that number					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 is going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She is in trouble for the fourth time

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	4 trouble	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trouble	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 trouble	case
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trouble	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She			trouble	time		tree rules

Option 2

She has four dogs now

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 dogs	nummod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	four dogs			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient

Option 3

She ate four puddings

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 puddings	nummod
4	puddings	pudding	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	She	four puddings					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She is pregnant with her fourth child

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 pregnant	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pregnant	cop
3	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 child	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pregnant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					with her fourth child; pregnant property	tree rules

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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