--- title: Old letter: "Mrs Gray is expecting her confinement in May." What wil… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics description: Old letter: "Mrs Gray is expecting her confinement in May." What will happen in May? 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What will happen in May? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gray · **What happens:** expect, confine, happen · **To what, where:** confinement This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 11 «Soft words for hard things: 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/11-pregnancy-and-birth/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Old letter: "Mrs Gray is expecting her confinement in May." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:11-pregnancy-and-birth:t9:1 # text = Old letter: "Mrs Gray is expecting her confinement in May." 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 Gray Gray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 expecting expect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 confinement confinement NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **expect** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Gray Mrs | Gray's confinement | | | may | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confinement=Theme | | 2 | **confine** *in a quote* | | Gray | | | | | | nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* What will happen in May? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:11-pregnancy-and-birth:t9:2 # text = What will happen in May? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | future | | | | | may | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Mrs Gray will go to prison ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:11-pregnancy-and-birth:t9:o1:1 # text = Mrs Gray will go to prison 1 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Gray Gray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | future | Mrs | | | prison | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial\_Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Mrs Gray will stay in her room ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:11-pregnancy-and-birth:t9:o2:1 # text = Mrs Gray will stay in her room 1 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Gray Gray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | future | Mrs | | | Mrs's room | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Mrs Gray will move house ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:11-pregnancy-and-birth:t9:o3:1 # text = Mrs Gray will move house 1 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Gray Gray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | future | Mrs | house | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Mrs Gray will give birth ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:11-pregnancy-and-birth:t9:o4:1 # text = Mrs Gray will give birth 1 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Gray Gray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | future | Mrs | birth | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | **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. 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