Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth
Mum whispers: "Don't ask Auntie about the baby, she lost it." What really happened?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: whisper, not ask, lose, happen · To what, where: Auntie, baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Mum whispers: "Don't ask Auntie about the baby, she lost it."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispers | nsubj |
| 2 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 5 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ask | advmod |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 whispers | ccomp |
| 8 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whispers | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispers | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | present | Mum | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Auntie | about the baby | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent auntie=Recipient about baby=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | Mum | baby | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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 really happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Auntie forgot the baby at home on her own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forgot | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forgot | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 own | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 own | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 forgot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Auntie | the baby | home | on Auntie's own | tree rules |
Option 2
The baby wandered off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 wandered | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander off | past | the baby | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Auntie gave the baby away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 gave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | past | Auntie | the baby | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Auntie's pregnancy ended and the baby died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pregnancy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Auntie | case |
| 3 | pregnancy | pregnancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 died | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | Auntie's pregnancy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | die | past | the baby | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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