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title: A text from Auntie: "guess who's getting a visit from the stork 👶🎉"… — Soft words for hard things: weight and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A text from Auntie: "guess who's getting a visit from the stork 👶🎉" What is she announcing? Test 10 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 option;
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# Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

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A text from Auntie: "guess who's getting a visit from the stork 👶🎉" What is she announcing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** guess, get, announce · **To what, where:** visit, 👶 🎉 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t10:1
# text = A text from Auntie: "guess who's getting a visit from the stork 👶🎉" What is she announcing?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	guess	guess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	👶	👶	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	🎉	🎉	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	announcing	announce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  | a visit |  | the 👶 🎉 |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from 🎉=Source |
| 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | present · progressive | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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A bird nest on the roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t10:o1:1
# text = A bird nest on the roof
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A new pet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t10:o2:1
# text = A new pet
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A baby is coming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t10:o3:1
# text = A baby is coming
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · progressive | a baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A trip to the zoo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t10:o4:1
# text = A trip to the zoo
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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