Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth
Gossip: "Rumour is she's in the pudding club, look at that bump." What does the gossip claim?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gossip Rumour · What happens: be, look, do · To what, where: pudding club
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Gossip: "Rumour is she's in the pudding club, look at that bump."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rumour | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gossip | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gossip | punct |
| 4 | Rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 club | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 club | cop |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 club | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 club | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 club | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 club | det |
| 10 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 club | compound |
| 11 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 club | parataxis |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 bump | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 bump | det |
| 16 | bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 club | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 club | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Gossip Rumour | the pudding club | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | at that bump | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bump=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 does the gossip claim?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 claim | det |
| 4 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 claim | compound |
| 5 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
That she ate too much pudding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pudding | amod |
| 6 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | That | much pudding | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
That she is pregnant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pregnant | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pregnant | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pregnant | cop |
| 4 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | pregnant property | tree rules |
Option 3
That she joined a baking club
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 joined | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 club | det |
| 5 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 club | compound |
| 6 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joined | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | That | a baking club | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient |
Option 4
That she hurt her tummy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | That | her tummy | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tummy=Patient |
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