Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

Which phrase for pregnancy is joking rather than polite?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: joke

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joking	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 pregnancy	case
4	pregnancy	pregnancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 phrase	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joking	aux
6	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 polite	cc
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 rather	fixed
9	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joking	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 joking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	which phrase for pregnancy						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Expecting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	gerund							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eating for two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 two	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund						for two	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

In a delicate condition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 condition	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 condition	det
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 condition	amod
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

In the family way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	compound
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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