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title: A magazine headline: "Curvy is the new beautiful." What kind of body… — Soft words for hard things: weight and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A magazine headline: "Curvy is the new beautiful." What kind of body is it praising? Test 13 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; Mova's
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# Test 13 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

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A magazine headline: "Curvy is the new beautiful." What kind of body is it praising?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Curvy, kind · **What happens:** be, praise · **To what, where:** magazine headline, kind

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This is test 13 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A magazine headline: "Curvy is the new beautiful."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t13:1
# text = A magazine headline: "Curvy is the new beautiful."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magazine	magazine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Curvy	Curvy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Curvy | a magazine headline *not said here* |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |

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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 kind of body is it praising?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t13:2
# text = What kind of body is it praising?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	praising	praise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | present · progressive | kind | what kind of body |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A muscly shape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t13:o1:1
# text = A muscly shape
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	muscly	muscly	ADJ	JJ	_	3	amod	_	_
3	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A plump, rounded shape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t13:o2:1
# text = A plump, rounded shape
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	rounded	rounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A thin straight shape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t13:o3:1
# text = A thin straight shape
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A tall shape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t13:o4:1
# text = A tall shape
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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