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description: Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the archaic expression "with child". Exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

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Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the archaic expression "with child".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, convey · **To what, where:** meaning

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:e1:1
# text = Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the archaic expression "with child".
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the meaning |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |
| 2 | **convey** | participle |  | the meaning *not said here* |  |  |  | by the archaic expression with child; accurately *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Pregnant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:e1:o1:1
# text = Pregnant
1	Pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Accompanied by an infant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:e1:o2:1
# text = Accompanied by an infant
1	Accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a infant | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by infant=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Possessing children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:e1:o3:1
# text = Possessing children
1	Possessing	possess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | gerund |  | children |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Engaged in the care of children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:e1:o4:1
# text = Engaged in the care of children
1	Engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in the care of children *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in care=Goal |
| 2 | **care** |  | children |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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