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Test 11 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati…

Aunt in a letter: "Expecting a little stranger at Christmas!" What is she telling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aunt · What happens: expect, tell · To what, where: little stranger, Christmas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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: Aunt in a letter: "Expecting a little stranger at Christmas!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Expecting	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 letter	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Expecting	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Expecting	punct
7	Expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stranger	amod
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Expecting	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Christmas	case
12	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Expecting	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Expecting	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Expecting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect in a quote	gerund	Aunt in a letter	a little stranger		Christmas			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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 is she telling?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 telling	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telling	nsubj
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	Aunt						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

A lost dog will arrive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrive	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 arrive	aux
5	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	future	a lost dog						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A guest from abroad will visit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 guest	det
2	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 abroad	case
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 guest	obl
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 visit	aux
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	future	a guest						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She is expecting a baby

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 expecting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 expecting	aux
3	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	present · progressive	She	a baby					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

Option 4

She bought a new doll

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	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doll	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 doll	amod
5	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	She	a new doll					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=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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