Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth
A card says: "Congratulations on your bundle of joy!" What is the card for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: card · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 card says: "Congratulations on your bundle of joy!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 card | det |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Congratulations | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Congratulations | punct |
| 6 | Congratulations | congratulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bundle | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Congratulations | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bundle | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Congratulations | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Congratulations | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a card | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 is the card for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 card | det |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the card | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A birthday present
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 present | det |
| 2 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 present | compound |
| 3 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The birth of a baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birth | det |
| 2 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 baby | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A new puppy in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 puppy | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puppy | amod |
| 3 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puppy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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