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Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth

Old letter: "Mrs Gray is expecting her confinement in May." What will happen in May?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gray · What happens: expect, confine, happen · To what, where: confinement

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Old letter: "Mrs Gray is expecting her confinement in May."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 letter	amod
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 expecting	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 expecting	punct
5	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Gray	nmod:desc
6	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 expecting	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 expecting	aux
8	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 letter	acl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 confinement	nmod:poss
10	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expecting	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 May	case
12	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 expecting	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 expecting	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 expecting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect in a quote	present · progressive	Gray Mrs	Gray's confinement			may		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confinement=Theme
2	confine in a quote		Gray						nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=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 will happen in May?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 May	case
5	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future					may		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Mrs Gray will go to prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
2	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs	flat
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 prison	case
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	Mrs			prison			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location

Option 2

Mrs Gray will stay in her room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
2	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs	flat
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 room	nmod:poss
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	future	Mrs			Mrs's room			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

Option 3

Mrs Gray will move house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 move	nsubj
2	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs	flat
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	future	Mrs	house					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mrs Gray will give birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
2	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs	flat
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	Mrs	birth					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme

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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