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Test 10 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…

Old novel: "In the small hours, her time came, and the midwife was sent for." What was happening?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: time · What happens: come, send, happen · To what, where: midwife

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 12 «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» 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 novel: "In the small hours, her time came, and the midwife was sent for."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 novel	amod
2	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 hours	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hours	punct
5	In	in	ADP	_	8 hours	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hours	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 novel	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 time	nmod:poss
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 novel	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sent	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 midwife	det
16	midwife	midwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sent	aux:pass
18	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 came	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	18 sent	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 novel	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 novel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	her time						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send in a quote	past · passive		the midwife					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 was happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happening	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happening	aux
3	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happening	punct

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

The options

Option 1

She was late for her work at the shop

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 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 work	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 work	nmod:poss
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 shop	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shop	det
9	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					for her work at the shop; late property	tree rules
2	work		her = she			the shop			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She was starting to give birth

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 starting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starting	aux
3	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 starting	xcomp
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past · progressive	She						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	give	to-infinitive	She not said here	birth					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme

Option 3

She was dying

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 dying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	aux
3	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	She						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

She was waking up

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 waking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waking	aux
3	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 waking	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past · progressive	She						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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