--- title: Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!" What happe… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics description: Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!" What happened? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati… Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!" What happened? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** diary · **What happens:** go, happen · **To what, where:** last This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» 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/12-birth-and-couples/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:12-birth-and-couples:t5:1 # text = Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!" 1 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 diary diary NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 1962 1962 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 conj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Nan's diary and Bill | | | last | | steady *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | 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 happened? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:12-birth-and-couples:t5:2 # text = What happened? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Bill learned to drive carefully and slowly ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:12-birth-and-couples:t5:o1:1 # text = Bill learned to drive carefully and slowly 1 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past | Bill | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **drive** | to-infinitive | Bill *not said here* | | | | | carefully *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} They stopped running ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:12-birth-and-couples:t5:o2:1 # text = They stopped running 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | They | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **run** | gerund | They *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} They both got jobs ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:12-birth-and-couples:t5:o3:1 # text = They both got jobs 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | They | jobs | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Bill and Nan became a serious couple ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:12-birth-and-couples:t5:o4:1 # text = Bill and Nan became a serious couple 1 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Bill and Nan | a serious couple | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | **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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