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Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

Brother yells "get off the bloody throne, I've been waiting ages!" What does he want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brother · What happens: yell, get off, wait, want · To what, where: bloody throne, ages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 6 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Brother yells "get off the bloody throne, I've been waiting ages!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yells	nsubj
2	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 yells	ccomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	8 throne	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 throne	det
7	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 throne	amod
8	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 waiting	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 waiting	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 waiting	aux
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 yells	parataxis
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waiting	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present	Brother						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get off in a quote	infinitive		the bloody throne					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer throne=Stimulus
3	wait in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	Brother	ages					tree rules

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 does he want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	Brother						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To be king in the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 king	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 king	cop
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 game	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		king		the game			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His turn on the toilet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 turn	nmod:poss
2	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 toilet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toilet	det
5	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	nmod

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

Option 3

His gaming chair back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chair	nmod:poss
2	gaming	gaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chair	compound
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 chair	advmod

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

Option 4

His seat on the sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 seat	nmod:poss
2	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 sofa	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sofa	det
5	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seat	nmod

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

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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