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title: In an art gallery: "The painting shows Rubenesque women dancing." Wh… — Soft words for hard things: weight and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In an art gallery: "The painting shows Rubenesque women dancing." What do the women look like? Test 12 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 opti
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# Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

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In an art gallery: "The painting shows Rubenesque women dancing." What do the women look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** painting, Rubenesque women, women · **What happens:** show, dance, look · **To what, where:** art gallery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In an art gallery: "The painting shows Rubenesque women dancing."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t12:1
# text = In an art gallery: "The painting shows Rubenesque women dancing."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Rubenesque	Rubenesque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** *in a quote* | present | the painting |  |  | a art gallery |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dance** *in a quote* | gerund | Rubenesque women |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What do the women look like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t12:2
# text = What do the women look like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · do-support | the women |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

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

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Plump and attractive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t12:o1:1
# text = Plump and attractive
1	Plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thin and pale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t12:o2:1
# text = Thin and pale
1	Thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Old and wrinkled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t12:o3:1
# text = Old and wrinkled
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Small and short

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t12:o4:1
# text = Small and short
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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