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title: Mum, after a midwife visit: "She weighed him and checked I'm healing… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum, after a midwife visit: "She weighed him and checked I'm healing, all good." What did the midwife do? Test 10 of lesson 18 «We're having a baby!» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 10 · We're having a baby!

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Mum, after a midwife visit: "She weighed him and checked I'm healing, all good." What did the midwife do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mum, I, midwife · **What happens:** weigh, check, heal, do · **To what, where:** him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 18 «We're having a baby!» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum, after a midwife visit: "She weighed him and checked I'm healing, all good."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:18-were-having-a-baby:t10:1
# text = Mum, after a midwife visit: "She weighed him and checked I'm healing, all good."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	midwife	midwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** *in a quote* | past | Mum | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value |
| 2 | **check** *in a quote* | past | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **heal** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did the midwife do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:18-were-having-a-baby:t10:2
# text = What did the midwife do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	midwife	midwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | the midwife |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Taught the older children maths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:18-were-having-a-baby:t10:o1:1
# text = Taught the older children maths
1	Taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past |  | the children maths |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent math=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Checked on the new baby and on Mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:18-were-having-a-baby:t10:o2:1
# text = Checked on the new baby and on Mum
1	Checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brought presents for the new baby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:18-were-having-a-baby:t10:o3:1
# text = Brought presents for the new baby
1	Brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cleaned the house from top to bottom for the family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:18-were-having-a-baby:t10:o4:1
# text = Cleaned the house from top to bottom for the family
1	Cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | past |  | the house |  | top to bottom |  | for the family | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme from top=Source |

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**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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